For those watching on zoom some housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight, that means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest by writing your question in the q and a box. The moderator will be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonights program and to introduce the moderator it is my pleasure to pass the program over to doctor robert citino. Doctor robert citino, Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in louisiana, we have a special guest with us tonight. A friend of the museum. My friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll, one of those people who doesnt need an introduction as we like to say. The introduction, he is extremely accomplished scholar and writer. He is the author of the epic story of the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacic war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight twilight of th
Clerk on a motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Chair mar great. We are adjourned. Take care. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. The december 3rd meeting. I am joined by Committee Member peskin. Committee member haney will be joining us. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this. Do you have announcements. In order to protect the public and City Employees during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to local state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number on your screen. Your opportunity to spea
Our infection rate is higher than the summer. This is not just about San Francisco but the entire region, state, and country the dangerous winter has arrived. We will have to take more action. We are still working out the details we are working out the details in Santa Santa Clara county. They have limited gatherings. Theres are things you have consider as well as other ideas to stop the spread. No one would like to be here. We spoke about worrying about doing well but having everyone relax and the cases spike like they did during the spanish flu. Im not saying thats what happened but there have been a lot of challenges including lack of national leadership. A lot of people have done well and put Public Health first. We are in the most dangerous periods of the pandemic and we need to do everything we can to keep hospitals from being over run. This is about saving lives. Everything we asked is about that, solution. Today is World Aids Day, this is a day where which remember all of those
Months. I was proud. We were doing well. Almost everyone in the city did what they asked you to do we are seeing how fast it could move the governor laid out a warning and we are seeing what is happening in San Francisco. Let me be clear, as clear as i can be, its not good. Cases are spiking. Hospitalizations are increasing quickly. Our infection rate is higher than the summer. This is not just about San Francisco but the entire region, state, and country the dangerous winter has arrived. We will have to take more action. We are still working out the details we are working out the details in Santa Santa Clara county. They have limited gatherings. Theres are things you have consider as well as other ideas to stop the spread. No one would like to be here. We spoke about worrying about doing well but having everyone relax and the cases spike like they did during the spanish flu. Im not saying thats what happened but there have been a lot of challenges including lack of national leadership
Enter this world awake for justice. Again you can find all this on our website at schaumburg. Org. If you are watching from the festival website you can scroll to the bottom of this particular page in shop the featured book. You can shop the rest of the festival from the bookish things my schaumburg shop. You can navigate or you can check out the full schedule of events. And just to let you know in the screen that is in front of your coffee look up in front of you if youre not seeing the chats, the little sort of comments if you where, talking bubble should the expansion chat for you. An ill be joined by alexander who is a senior staff writer it columbia journalism review. Previously she was a reporter at the Village Voice and covered education for the project were to partnership between columbia university, columbia journeying ten Journalism School part shall be in conversation with wando small following will introduce one that there will be a reading. And then following the conversat