The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
This has been a disastrous year and we need you on the board of supervisors to take descraftiaction. S. We will restore the 23expirt safety net for most vulnerable api communities in San Francisco. They are Food Security, workforce development, Behavioral Health, dough miss tick violence and youth and services so we have the board of supervisors to restore all this expiring programs and and various departments for a total of 2 million. On behalf of cyc we have two expiring programs under mohcd including our asian and Pacific Islander Youth Leadership program which provides Youth Development for age 16 to 25 and reach out to 200 about the importance of city engagement that they promote young people to register to vote, participate in census and take part in vote 16 campaign. The other program is the bayview Services Connection program. With a reduction of funding of 50,000 which will harm and reduce our Cross Cultural community and this program serves over 5,000 vulnerable and low incom
Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 pandemic, the members of the board participated remotely Via Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present in their meeting chamber. The city believes that it is essential all communities with and without internet have the ability to participate remotely in this meeting. Your written correspondence on any item will be made a part of the official file. Address any mail to San Francisco city hall, 944 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. If using
Good afternoon, everybody. Im cherie miller. Im located in district 5, and also, i am an originating member of the African American art and cultural district in district 10. The San Francisco board of supervisors historic use of laws and policies have targeted and harmed the African American community intentionally and the eventually, and its the cause of Police Brutality and the loss of black lives, and our health and wellness in our community. Defund sfpd. The Police Department has not used the public funding for all of the public good. Greater funding should be directed more intentionally to Community Programs and spaces to strengthen us. No more intentional racist laws and policies . Find subprime loan lenders. I want to thank all of the supervisors for their work. I look forward to meeting dean preston. I have not met him yet. Shamann supervisor shamann walton, thank you for your work and your excellence. We want to continue fighting for our health and wellness and our prosperity.
Panels focus is going to be on Voter Suppression, Election Integrity and security and maybe even gerrymandering if we can get to it and normally we would know what those things mean because its been a long history but its a different scenario now, we all want fair, secure, timely elections but we have three essential problems that are facing this upcoming president ial election, first the Global Pandemic which none of us have ever seen, live through or voted through before, second the emerging tactics of the white house that is moving very broadly and very clearly to suppress the vote and third, the impact of the white house strategy in the Global Pandemic on march penalize groups that include black, brown or those with different abilities, et cetera, and the passenger this administration were Voter Suppression came out, they be put squarely, how it lies, how it lost the ballot and that sort of thing, having been targeted and disenfranchised by the state and federal policy, its a bit m