We weree just talking in the back, her discussion of life in a religious community, doubt, how you decide to leave or stay and how you defend yourself in those contexts is one of those conversations that we need to be having so much more as a culture. I think the it opens up so many doors for people. Megan is herself a writer and an activist. She leftp the Westboro Baptist church in november 2012 and is now an educator on topics relating to extremism and communication across ideological lines. At the age of 53, megan at the age of 5, peg began began protesting homosexuality. This church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family. Picketing at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As the churchs twitter spokesman, megan was one of the few that interacted with the outside world, and twitter actually did something maybe we can applaud it for, it caused her to begin doubting the Strict Church members and its message. After digital
Has picked up reports. This is work that came up from the community through the commission. We have the agency and the commission. So its in cecredibly important work. Also, ban the box started with the human rights commission, the equity advisory committee. Now thats also something thats traveled nationally and gets stronger and stronger every year in different places. One of the things that i am personally most proud of is that we instituted a pilot under mayor lee to deal with implicit bias. So we were able to it was an idea we had at the commission. I brought it to the commission. I wasnt the first person to think about this obviously, but we were able to get a Pilot Program going with the mayors support and the supporter support of the family. Kimberlypapinon, we were able to work with her to create a program and the mayor funded it. So that was an amazing thing. And i know now that the department of human rights is dism administering a program and i really look forward to hearing
Thank you, supervisor few er and i just also want to take this opportunity, we have Planning Commissioner melgar who is with us, we have michael p a papas and rita simal. Thank y thank you so much for bookiein e here. Daryl, i feel youre on a commission but i dont know. You guys have to bear with me because i dont know everyone who is on what circumcisiommiss you never know. I also want to take this opportunity to recognize someone who im actually going to be swearing in after i think this particular event, a new commissioner for the Human Rights Commission, thank you so much james deluca for being with us here. [ applause ]. Mayor breed with that id like to introduce the supervisor from district 10, supervisor walton. Supervisor walton good afternoon. Lets give it up for 55 years of the Human Rights Commission. [ applause ] you. Supervisor walton you know, ive been given two minutes to talk about the unfinished agenda for black folks in san franci o francisco. That unfinished agenda a
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Entered into a project Labor Agreement with the building and construction trades for the Water System Improvement Program and then we came back to you in 2017 to extend that to the p. L. A. System project and the pumping station system project. The p. L. A. Has a joint Administrative Committee that works with us to administer and implement the project Labor Agreement thats made up of representatives of the unions, building and construction trades, and then, the sfpuc. So what this item does, it formalizes a process by which the commission expressly delegate projects to the general manager to the joint Administrative Committee, and one of the processes is for all of the projects that weve added is we conduct a Due Diligence analysis. We similarly would do that for any projects and present that inform the j. U. C. And if the j. U. C. Votes unanimously, those projects would be added to the p. L. A. In addition, this specific item adds seven projects under the p. L. A. And ratifies the dec