Welcome to the San Francisco city and county board of supervisors regular meeting this afternoon at 2 00 pm. , tuesday, may 21, 2024. Madam clerk please call the roll. Thank you, mr. President. By supervisor chan present. Supervisor dorsey present. Supervisor engardio present. Supervisor mandelman present. Supervisor melgar address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction present. Supervisor preston present and supervisor ronen present. Supervisor safai present. Supervisor stefani present. And supervisor walton present. Mr. President all members are present. Thank you, madam clerk thank you, madam clerk unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Colleagues please jo
Providing the opportunity for the board of supervisors to make legislative decisions instead of leaving it in the charter, understanding that it is so important that we do Economic Feasibility studies to ensure that the decisions that get made around our requirements for housing, dont impact our ability to build. We know a lot of things for housing are not within our control. The cost of materials and the economy and setting Interest Rates is a whole but there are things here locally that are within our control. I want to take this opportunity to really appreciate so many people who came together with the technical advisory committee, who worked day in and day out to ensure that we really dug deep, that we fulfill a process that we made to the people of San Francisco. That when we make decisions about inclusionary numbers, if the economy changes in anyway, we will reevaluate those numbers to determine if they should be either raised or lowered, and we will not play politics with the ne
But there are things optimistic as a ground break confirmation as a society we gotta build for a bright are tomorrow. And for us, this is exciting stuff. 2 years ago we were here in the pandemic and shock our city and globe. And we started on the infrastructure that you see here. We said then when it locked rough we would not stop. We set the ground w to build the future neighborhood that San Francisco needed. And today we are excited that is Getting Started. Want to look back. [applause] it is good if you were here 12 years ago you would number the middle of a former power pleasant and about to build another there brave people said, you know may be we dont need another power plant here that leadership starred with former supervisor so far maxwell, we honor here today. [applause]. Other leaders like joe possess. Lets reimagine the future if they have were successful in putting another power pleasant this land would have been closed for another jeneration. Instead we are here. Thank you
Hello and welcom, you tuned into press tvs world news, im marsia hashaby. Thanks so much for being with us. We continue of course our coverage of the situation in the ghaza strip where over 2800 palestinians including more than 1,000 children have been killed in 9 days of relentless bombardment by the regime, almost 11,000. Others have been wounded so far. Palestinian Civil Defense Officials Say over 1,000 people are missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed by israeli air strikes in gaza. The humanitarian situation is also deteriorating by the offer as a regime has blocked the supply of water, electricity, fuel and medicines into the territory. The un chief has urged israel to allow the rapid and unimpeded humanitarian aid into the gas. Strip, the United Nations in relief and works agency has also warned that gaza is witnessing an unprecedented human catastrophe. The number of people seeking shelter in our school and other facilities in the south is absolutely overwhelming and w
Because when you came back to the board of supervisors, the work that we did together by providing the opportunity for the board of supervisors to make legislative decisions instead of leaving it in the charter, understanding that it is so important that we do Economic Feasibility studies to ensure that the decisions that get made around our requirements for housing, dont impact our ability to build. We know a lot of things for housing are not within our control. The cost of materials and the economy and setting Interest Rates is a whole but there are things here locally that are within our control. I want to take this opportunity to really appreciate so many people who came together with the technical advisory committee, who worked day in and day out to ensure that we really dug deep, that we fulfill a process that we made to the people of San Francisco. That when we make decisions about inclusionary numbers, if the economy changes in anyway, we will reevaluate those numbers to determ