Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors today. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by dean preston. Do you have any announcements. Yes, due to the covid19, to protect the city, the board of supervisors legislative chamber rooms are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order, declarations and directive. They will attend via Video Conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv a streaming the number across the stream. Comments are available via phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting id is 1455134299. Again, thats 1455134299. Press pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted. When your item comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quie
Thank you. I wouldnt see us surprised to move some bestsellers on the needle today. It is important to keep the book festival a free event that serves the community. The library of congress and the book festivals real purpose is literacy which leads to learning an opportunity, which matches our goal of helping our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses s. Grant. If we are lucky, certain other popular founding fathers. One thing i learned from this story of president grant was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. Acknowledge and overcome their imperfections. An incredible story that reminded me a person of good will can learn from their mistakes and reach their potential. I hope you enjoy this session. It is my privilege to introduce the Deputy Director of national, International Outreach and our session moderator, colleen. [app
Prouder to watch the festival grow into the incredibly popular and impactful event and has become. I wouldnt be surprised [applause] thank you. I wouldnt see us surprised to move some bestsellers on the needle today. It is important to keep the book festival a free event that serves the community. The library of congress and the book festivals real purpose is literacy which leads to learning an opportunity, which matches our goal of helping our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses s. Grant. If we are lucky, certain other popular founding fathers. One thing i learned from this story of president grant was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. Acknowledge and overcome their imperfections. An incredible story that reminded me a person of good will can learn from their mistakes and reach their potential. I hope you enjoy this sess
The real purpose here is literacy. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. Turnout sion, ron chernow will discuss his book about ulysses s grant. One thing i learned from this story was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. It isnt an incredible story. Me that a person of good will learn from their mistakes. I hope you enjoy this session. Welcome to the 18th annual National Book festival. Ron is an awardwinning journalist, historian, biographer. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book award for nonfiction. In 2016, he won the National Humanities medal. His book on Alexander Hamilton with the inspiration for the awardwinning musical. He worked as a historical it is worth noting that are cochair of the festival was supposed to conduct this interview today. I just happen to be a big admirer of ulysses s grant. When you are first approached to create a hiphop musical about your book, what was
Delays is when there are crashes. Now there was a crash earlier on the altamonte pass approach 580 at greenville and this commute. Now part of it is just the truck traffic. If you look at the rest of the east bay were off to a good start. Well check that and look at the south bay commute in sdprus a few minutes. Just a few minutes. At least one man was taken into custody after a suspicious fire in a san jose apartment building. It started in the carport area of the altera apartments. Ktvus alyssa harington there this morning with the latest information. Good morning. Yeah, a bomb squad had to be called to the scene after reports that a device may have been used to ignite this fire. Residents had to be evacuated dozens of them were seen standing in the parking lot as investigators arrived to the scene some neighbors say that the fire woke them up and they tried to fight it themselves. They also tried to explain a strange smell. Suspicious canisters and broken glass. Firefighters, police