A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it right, im more surprised than anything. Im laurie green awe girardin. Im in district 9. Thanks for this opportunity to be considered for the league of women voters seat on the Ballot Simplification Committee. Im a selfemployed Communications Consultant and writer. I help nonprofits, foundation and others share their stories and engage their communities. I have 20 years of experience in communications. In my work, i use plain language to make ideas and information more accessible to more people. I specialize in legal, complex, technical, medical information into writing that people can easily understand and use. As a consultant and writer, i must be impartial, bias and nonparti
Thank you very much. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is for any item that is not currently on the agenda for this evening. Do we have anybody speaking on that . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Regular agenda. All right. The next agenda item is number 2 the approval of our minutes from october 1, 2019. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes . I move to approve. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the approval of the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Vice president camino. [roll call]. The minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from executive director weiland. Thank you president bleiman. Good evening commissioners. I have a brief report this evening. I wanted to provide an update for all of you that we have been conducting some Community Outreach efforts as staff and really in gratitude to Deputy Director azevedo for leading the charge. But in educating neighborhoods in merchant corridors around our limited L
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining for the grand opening of our public lobby. It has been a long process. Were so honored to have you all here today. First, before we get into our short speaking program, i first want to acknowledge a few parties that have worked really hard to make this all possible. Id first like to thank our budget analyst and project Management Team that have worked really hard to make this run smoothly. Thank you very much for that. [ applause ]. Theyve also worked very closely hand in hand with the mayors budget office. Id like to thank Kelly Kirkpatrick for coming here today. Thank you. [ applause ]. Next i would like to thank our public facing team who provides excellent Public Service. Our Public Service team and our recorder division. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. They provided Excellent Customer Service even throughout a lot of yay. They provided a lot of Excellent Service even throughout a lot of construction. Thank you for keep
Triggered by a particular zoning or petition, these are voluntary by the applicant and would be requested by the staff or one of the commissions. Ill get into a little more detail about the Design Guidelines themselves. I think its important to note that the retained elements Design Guidelines are focused on the how, how you do something. Once you weigh the options and consider whether there is something existing that should be maintained, then the next question is how to do it so that itsful, both to the existing material and the new development. There are two sections. This plays off of the urban Design Guidelines which is our larger guidelines in the city. There is site architect and urban realm. You see reference of an s 1. 1, that references s 1. These take those as a basis and get into deeper detail around this particular topic, which is why its called a special topic design guideline. So theres site design, retain existing features. Under architecture, modulating new development
On the item . Any comments from the board superintendent . Thank you. [roll call] six ayes. May i make a request . It would be nice if we could, as commissioners, have a list of all the parent advisory committees, because i know there is a variety of them. A list of those and then a list of the members so that and the contact, the liaisons for those, because i want to make sure were all communicating with them and theyre all in different locations. Thank you. President cook section e, consent calendar. A motion and second . So moved. Second. President cook thank you. Any times by the superintendent . None. President cook any items by the board . Any items severed. Seeing none. Roll call vote. [role call] [roll call] six ayes. Thank you. Section f, discussion and vote on consent calendar resolution severed for separate discussion. There is none tonight. Section g, proposal for action. There is none tonight. Section h, i call approval of the efficiency of textbooks as required by the edu