[gavel] good afternoon. And welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, march 2nd, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Aaron peskin, joined to my right by vice chair and to my Left Committee member supervisor pressin. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk please shake sure to silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 10th board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Could you please read the first item. Clerk yes, number one amending the planning code to create the immediate length, occupancy, use characteristic, amending the administrative code, and affirming the appropriate findings. Chair peskin colleagues, we heard this item last week. And we heard robust Public Comment. I have since gotten quite a bit of public input. Let me start by asking if there are any members of the public who would like to comment on this item, which i wo
[gavel]. Clerk president hirsch. We are back in open session. You still have a quorum. President hirsch okay. Thank you. Next item. Clerk line item 10, vote to disclose any or all items in closed session. San francisco code 67. 12 a. President hirsch is there a motion not to disclose . Motion. Second. President hirsch all in favor . Opposed . Public comment. Okay. Next item. Clerk line item 11, adjournment. President hirsch okay. Do i have a motion . So moved. President hirsch do i have a second . Second. President hirsch thank you all. I view San Francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. I just love the city. I love everything about it. When im away from it, i miss it like a person. I grew up in San Francisco kind of all over the city. We had pretty much the run of the city cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would in the summer, wed all all the way down to aquatic park, and wed walk down to the library, to the kids center. In those days, the city was s
Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he took a little time off in the middle and then back to dbi for, i believe, 13 years was the time . I dont know how many times i tried to upset bill and i could not. [laughter] and i made genuine efforts to do it. He was always a professional and managed to make things clear
They are also coming from distant countries where they have experienced hardships. They are older adult students. Many of my Child Development students work fulltime and full time and they also have spent years to get their degree so they can provide my name is janet. I teach ceramics. I think its time we took a magnifying glass to the way this administration spends money because we share your concerns about the money. We had and i think we need to go to the highest levels to look at this. So we are told students of color will be helped by these cuts, but we have been hearing that is not the case. When i look across my classroom, which is always full, i have 25 students in a small ceramics studio, and i turned away at least that many that wanted to take the class. I see a lot of black hair. I mostly see black hair when i look out across my classroom, and some grey hair. We are an ethnically Diverse College and we know it. Nobody needs to even prove that. We know that is true, and yet t
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county transportation forth. Our clerk is mr. Albertta kintania. Can you please call the role. role call we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any question on december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve said minutes. On that motion made and seconded, a role call, please. role call the item is approved. Next item. Item 3, election of chair and vice chair for the year 2020. This is an action item. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Is there a motion, commissioner xi. I would like to make a motion to nominate erin peskin. Seconded. Any other nominations . Nobody wants the job. Seeing none, we will close the nominations and on that motion made and seconded, can we do that same house, same call im sorry, commissioner furer. I meant to put my name on the next item. Same house, same call. Than