Thank you. So we have a quorum. And our next item is item 2. President s announcement. Good morning, everybody, welcome to the june 17th, 2020. I have some president s announcement and in add please forgive me for any miss spelling or miss pronouncing of words in advance. As i said, good morning and welcome to our remote Building Inspection Commission meeting for june 2020. I am president of the Building Inspection Commission and im joined today by all of our commissioner members along with interim director reardon and senior d. B. I. Staff. Welcome to all of you. As we continue to cope with this extraordinary circumstances caused by the covid19 pandemic, we are now in our First Quarter of on going building safety work and different ways from back in february of this year that we have to do this report. Were certainly still working on issues. I can Sate Department is doing an outstanding job of keeping customers and staff hearing to the publichealth protocols that have been put in plac
Accessible to the public so you would know where to find it. This is the july 8 meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. Sergeant youngblood, will you please call roll. Clerk yes, maam. [roll call] Vice President taylor i think youre muted. [roll call] clerk Vice President taylor, you have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. For the members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on any of the items on the agenda, the phone number is 4084189388. The access code is 1467731245, and as always, i would ask that you mute your mute the television or any sounds in the background so that its easier for us to hear you. And commissioners, i would ask that you would mute yourself and unmute yourself when you want to be heard. Just as last week, please put your name in the chat if you would like to be heard. Sergeant youngblood. Clerk thank you, commissioner. For members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv. At the moment, you can get to our meeting by goin
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Pay for themselves and tickets. We dont know why you dont do enforcement. What is the sfmtas opposition to enforcing the regulations that are here to make traffic work rather than letting it be a free for all. If you want to snow slow streets suggestions talk to us, weve got ideas you could use right now in soma. We have no slow streets and we would love them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. So speaker, if you can start talking. My name is brian and i walk San Francisco vision zero organizer and member of the senior and disability workgroup. We really appreciate all walk San Francisco all that you are doing to keep us moving safely, specifically thank you for this work to speed up muni service and the transit only lanes and so we can actually keep levels high and we know that this is critical not only for public and the pandemic but also for publichealth related to the citys vision zero goal and in terms of ways making it safe to walk we appreciate the slow Streets Programm
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