Are you prepared to make your presentation . Sorry. I want to share my screen with your power point presentation. Youll have five minutes. Ill let you know when your presentation is up. Can everybody see this . Unfortunately, we cant, stephanie. Okay. If there are members of the public who are interest logos ed inspeaking on this matter s star three. Thank you, stephanie. The slides are up. Im an architect with the department of public works. Weve had had five approvals to date. Specific Design Review concepts through phase three. A review committee back in april. We have a lot of slides. Im going to go fast. This is the original building exterior. A site entry to the left. Next slide. The original reading room is shown here. Thats the main stair that was demolishedemolished. Showing architectural elements for the main stair and main entrance. This is the 1997 floorplan that shows the loss of the features. Buildings on bar bartlett. This is a diagram showing the relationship to the pro
Statues were ripped from their pedestals and covered with graffiti. This was after a night of protests. Wilson walker is there. It is clear why some of those figures were targeted. Others however it is not so clear . Thats right. So where is the line between protests and destruction of public property . Thoughts on that from the mayor coming up. But two of those three statues are men who are now notorious for their existing as slaveowners. Another was famous for accepting the surrender of robert e lee. All morning and throughout the afternoon, they worked to clean up after the scene here in the music concourse. This is just the aftermath that many had to come and see for themselves. Among the empty pedestal, one that held Francis Scott key. A man who did owned slaves. And another was the founder of California Missions was also a slave owner. When i was here last week, i noticed it was still up. And i just thought it was surprising to have him so prominently in the park considering the
Approval of minutes and july 11, 2023 Port Commission meeting. So moveped. Second. We have a motion and second. All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The motion passes unanimously. The minutes of the july 11, 2023 meeting have been approved. Item 3, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 4, announcements. Please be adviceed the ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meetling. A member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comment on each item, unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period. Public comment must be in respect to the current agenda item. The commission will take inperson and remote Public Comment on each item beginning in person. For remote Public Comment, dial 14156550001 and access code 26612350803 , then star 3 to raise your han
As first peoples. Item 2, a approval of minutes and july 11, 2023 Port Commission meeting. So moveped. Second. We have a motion and second. All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The motion passes unanimously. The minutes of the july 11, 2023 meeting have been approved. Item 3, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 4, announcements. Please be adviceed the ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meetling. A member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comment on each item, unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period. Public comment must be in respect to the current agenda item. The commission will take inperson and remote Public Comment on each item beginning in person. For remote Public Comment, dial 14156550001 and access code 26612350803 , t
Election, and left in the dark. Local lawmakers say theyll demand answers from pgandes following Power Outages that lasted for days. Abc seven news starts now. Always live abc seven news starts right now. Great. Well, its a day to highlight all the positive lives of oakland. And thank you for joining us tonight im j. R stone. You may have seen the seventh annual black joy parade that we stream live today on abc seven platforms. Its more than just a celebration in the streets. Its a week long effort to elevate a community that sometimes vilified and often overlooked. Love it is my first time. Im so excited. I missed it last year, so many people lined the streets of oakland on this sunday to catch the seventh annual black joy parade. Its how john coakley celebrated his 73rd birthday. I had to get out of the house and come down here and do this. I love seeing all of our black people come out the different businesses and the different ethnicities. For years, the black joy parade has celebr