Good morning, today is wednesday , september 18th, 2019. This is a regular meeting of the abatement appeals board. I would like to remind everyone to turn of all electronic devices. The first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. The next item is item be. The oath where are part all parties giving testimony please raise your right hand and stand. Do you swear the testimony were about to give is a truth to the best of your knowledge . Thank you, you maybe seated. For information his, we want to state the department will present its case first then the appellant. Each individual has seven minutes to present their case. Next there will be Public Comment. The members have three minutes each. Lastly there is rebuttal time of three minutes. The next item is item see, approval of minutes great discussion and possible action to adopt the minutes for the meeting held on august 21st, 2019. Move to approve. We have a motion and a second is there any Public Comment on the
Comment is closed. Next is 2. Approval of minutes for august 20, 2019. I will ask for a motion for approval of the minutes. Motion. Second. Any Public Comment. Seeing number none, it is closed. roll call . The minutes are approved. The agenda item report from executive director. Thank you and good evening, commissioners on my topics to discuss with you this evening, i wanted to first apologize as i mississaugmiss reported somethiu at the last meeting regarding streamlining. I think i said it had passed when in reality at that point it passed through first reading. My apologies. I will give you an update. It has passed now. That is great. On wednesday, september 11th mayor breed signed the legislation and it will go into effect on october 11 to enable Retail Businesses to diversify offerings to attract new Business Models to vacant storefronts and increase opportunities for retail and nightlife businesses to sell vacant storefronts. It will support live music by limiting doilycative ins
Where does that money go . I think it goes into the general fund. It should go to disabled people. It should go to disabled services and programs. Dont just collect money and cite people who are harming the disabled population and use the money for somebody else. Thats a problem i see. Also i want to know what sfmta is doing about private bus drivers blocking bus zones. In my last two hearings with sfmta, which were horrible, the level of discrimination from sfmta against me for my disabilities has been unreal and is well documented with all my email communication with mod. My last two ada hearings, both of which were because a driver would not pick me up, a muni driver would not pick me up in a bus zone, this is a bus zone, not a flag stop. The appointed officer in both hearings used obstruction of the loading zone by private companies as an excuse for not picking me up in wheelchair. I dont feel i should be punished not getting on a bus because someone is blocking a bus zone. My last
Became seriously unwell. He was lying down and when i picked him up his bodyjust kind of flopped, just really weak, so we took him to the out of hours vets and they said theyd keep an eye on him for me. Winston was left fighting for his life, just days after leaving the licenced breeder. Puppy farming has long been controversial. Four years ago, new rules were supposed to improve the Industry Health checks from vets, stricter annual inspections by local authorities. But despite repeated warnings dogs are still falling sick after being bred in filthy, unfit conditions. Conditions that prospective owners are unlikely to see. Im meeting a campaigner who covertly infiltrates puppy farms across the uk. She agreed to show me undercover footage of what conditions can they were in an awful, dreadful condition. They didnt like strangers or people coming up to them. They certainly didnt want to be touched. The rescue charity says it was told by the breeder that dwd had a prolapsed womb. But vets
Assistant secretary of state nominee for democracy, human rights and labor. We could also see work on 2020 spending for defense, plus energy and water. Now live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who judges justly our nation and world, we honor your name. You are so patient with us. Cleanse our eyes that we may see more clearly, open our hearts that we may love you more dearly. We confess that sometimes injustice seems to prevail. Avenge injustice, o god, and cause the godly to rejoice. Deliver us from those who seek to set an ambush for freedom. Lord, give our lawmakers the wisdom to look to you for safety for you are our strength and salvation. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america