Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the june 25, 2020 special meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair over the committee. With me on the Video Conference is vice chair supervisor Catherine Stefani and rules member gordon mar. Id like to thank sfgovtv for the meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Looks like youre on mute. Apologies. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in a meeting remotely. Many members will attend a meeting through Video Conference and attend to the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item on the agenda. Were streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Again, that is 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 145, 418, 2406. Again, that is 1454192406 and then press pound and pound
Intellectual property, this is about two hours. Come to order. Well im disappointed we cant all be together in person today, im grateful to the chairman graham, and our clerk for facilitating this through web apps. I want to be clear that this subCommittee Hearing is not distracting from the full committee. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd, and the senseless deaths of so many of our African American brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to senator graham for holding eight full Committee Hearing until the sink in america and i fully support that effort. We also have to continue to address the covid19 crisis in the impact its had on millions of americans and livelihoods. Just this morning the full Committee Held a conference on covid19 and its impact on tension. Centers im also glad mcconnell and several republican senators will take up the protection program. We are going to continue to address this
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