Agenda. Those attending in person will be allowed to speak first, and then we will hear from those who are waiting on the telephone line. The Public Comment callin number for todays meeting is 415 a6550001. When prompted, enter the meeting id for todays meeting. The meeting id. Is 26635936535. After youve entered the meeting, id press the pound symbol twice. Youll be connected to the meeting. Youll hear the meeting discussions, but your telephone line will be muted and in listening mode. When your item of interest comes up in public. Comment is called those joining us in person should line up to speak along the curtain wall that ill point out each time. And those on the telephone should dial star three to be added to the speaker line. If youre on your telephone, please remember to turn down the volume on your television and your computer, your listening devices , your radio, wherever you may be using to access todays proceedings. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in writing.
Youre unmuted. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 12th, 2023, regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am catherine stefani, chair of the committee and to my right is vice chair engardio and to my left is supervisor lee dorsey. The clerk is mr. John carroll. And id also like to thank Kalina Mendoza at sf. Gov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes thank you, madam chair. The board of supervisors and its committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. The board recognizes that equitable Public Access is essential and we will be taking Public Comment as follows. First, Public Comment will be taken on each item on todays agenda. Those attending in person will be allowed to speak first, and then we will hear from those who are waiting on the telephone line. The Public Comment callin num
Today we will begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. Before item one is called, id like to start by thanking Media Services and sfgovtv and of course, our staff for helping run this meeting, please call item one, item one. Roll call. Commissioner benitez. Commissioner cornett, present. Commissioner. Dickerson. Present. Commissioner herbert is absent. President healy is absent. Commissioner ortiz cartagena, here and Vice President ozunas present. Vice president. You have a quorum. Thank you. Okay, now i will read our land acknowledgment. The San Francisco Small Business commission and the office of Small Business staff acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accord
Today we will begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. Before item one is called, id like to start by thanking Media Services and sfgovtv and of course, our staff for helping run this meeting, please call item one, item one. Roll call. Commissioner benitez. Commissioner cornett, present. Commissioner. Dickerson. Present. Commissioner herbert is absent. President healy is absent. Commissioner ortiz cartagena, here and Vice President ozunas present. Vice president. You have a quorum. Thank you. Okay, now i will read our land acknowledgment. The San Francisco Small Business commission and the office of Small Business staff acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accord
Through policy, investment, significant change and im so excited and glad that San Francisco has been an environmental leader. Dp pushing for transformtive change in climate policies, in fact. When i served on the board of sprierdzs when we first finally got clean power sf through the board the single most important thing we could do to impact climate change. Where almost 4 huh human,000 customers and started our advocacy using equity in Climate Action plan in the Bayview Community saw 90 percent. Folks stay in the program. Manning sty row foam, that was a challenge we did it it is making a difference now. Work that we did to ban straws and to find reusability options. I have been you are not happy about those reusable options but the fact is San Francisco was generating a million straws a day that were impacting our waste. One other things we are work hard on is to get rid of single use items you order food and put the forks and i bunch of ketchup you dont use in your bag xu put them