Commissioner chan is very in touch with the Veterans Community, and in process of working with two areas of interest in the San Francisco community. The first one is getting free access to the state parks and recreation, and the state level recreation b. M. R. , as well. Jason is currently managing the Veterans Justice Court as a men tar coordinator. Mentor coordinator. I was so impressed with sitting down with both [inaudible] chair ronen thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. My name is linda yee. I hope you dont just consider bill barnickel for the next four years as a commissioner, i hope you appoint him. I cant say how much he did for my 96yearold dad who served in the borna war theater. I helped him through the application process. It was really difficult. We waited, and we waited. Two years later, no word from the Veterans Administration. So i finally contacted Congress Woman Jackie Speiers office, and they said my dad did not qualify.
President bleiman hello and welcome to the march 3, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. My name is ben bleiman, and i am the president of the commission. If you want to speak on Public Comment, you need to fill out a speaker card or you can just come to the podium when its Public Comment. I want to thank sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this media with the public, and well start with roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Thank you. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is comment on any item that is not on our regular agenda tonight. Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman next agenda item is number two, which is approval of our minutes for the february 18, 2020 meeting, and ill ask if we have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the february 8, 2020 meeting. I move to approve. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is
Chair ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Good morning and welcome to the february 24, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. Seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. Seating to my left for supervisor Catherine Stefani is matt haney. Our clerk is gordon an youyoun id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all phones and electr electron electronic devices. Items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Chair rone chair ronen thank you. Can you please read item one. Clerk would you like to excuse supervisor stefani . Chair ronen thank you. Yes. [gavel]. Clerk now would you please read item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen and we have supervisor peskin. Hello, supervisor peskin. Would you like to make any opening comments . Supervisor peskin thank you, chair ronen, supervisor haney, and supervisor mar. As youre aware, the board of supervisors gives the board the power of subpoena which was s
My familys starts in mexico in a small town. My parents are from a very, very small town. So small, that my dads brother is married to one of my moms sisters. Its that small. A lot of folks from that town are here in the city. Like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. My dad came out here first. I think i was almost twoyearsold when he sent for us. My mom and myself came out here. We moved to San Francisco early on. In the Mission District and moved out to daily city and bounced back to San Francisco. We lived across the street from the ups building. For me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. When i was sevenyearsold and im in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. I have to make sure that we do our homework. Its a lot of responsibility for a kid. The weekends were always for family. We used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new
Tomorrow that brj barge is going to be maybe a thousand feet in the bay. Before the big show, tons of preparation going to make San Franciscos skylight up. Well start loading the shells. Theyll fill it full of fireworks. Then we attach the fireworks to the network which is attached to the computer, and then at midnight, we pull the trigger. And when he says trigger, he really means it. This is a dead mans switch. One of these crewmembers will be given the responsibility to keep San Franciscos show going. If they let go, the show is over. 15 minutes, 25 seconds. Its actually longer than that because there is a preroll. Its actually 16 25. And boy does that thumb get tired. He promises this years show will be different with new designs and fireworks that will reach up to 1800 feet in the air. Were also using some equipment that we havent used on this display before. So weve got much more angles that we can play with. Along the embarcadero, the barricades are ready and so are San Francisc