President yee okay. Good afternoon and welcome to the september 1, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart and join with me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, who record each of our meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during this covid19 emergency, members of the board of supervisors will participate to the same extent as if they were present in their legislative chamber. The board recognizes the pandemic has made the need for communication more acute and that those communities, with and without the internet, have the opportunity to participate, written
Channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org. Our streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak unless comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone. Number is 408 4189388. You will hear the meeting discussion. Youll be muted and in listen mode only. When your item comes up, dial star 33. Best practice is to call from quiet location and turn down your television or radio. You may submit comment in email to myself, rules committee cle clerk, if you submit comment by email it will be forwarded to the supervisors. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Before get started today, i want to make sure i let everyone know that im going to move item three out of order at the end of the meeting. Given yesterdays budget meeting and the inspiring outpouring of constituent voices with regard to the sfpd budget and staffing. We expect theres going to be many people here today and we wanted to take the other items that will go a lot
Good afternoon everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee im supervisor hillary ronen. With me is supervisor catherine stefani. And gordon mar. I like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement . Yes, due to covid19 emergency, City Employees and the public, board of trustees legislative chamber are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org. Our streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak unless comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone. Number is 408 4189388. You will hear the meeting discussion. Youll be muted and in listen mode on
About 50 of our building is unemployed. As a finance manager, i just want to point out that the landlord investment model hinges on the fact that youll be able to meet your mortgage. So to the landlords talking about recovering represent, youre being heartless in a recovering rent, youre being heartless in a way that im not sure you understand. Fob landlords and investors, financial balance is something that you plan out. Its profitandloss statements. Its real, but its not going to put you out on the street and maybe kill you, especially if youre like one of the black and brown families left in San Francisco. [inaudible] between living in a car or living on a street or moving out to tracy and commuting into the Community Like people that i know. T this is legislation to try to help people through this crisis; this is a step. I just thank you to the board of supervisors and thank you for hearing our plea. Thank you for keeping us safe so we can figure this out together. Thank you very m
And allowing the government to negotiate medication Prescription Drug prices. And for residents and homers to stay in their homes during the pandemic. Live coverage of the house. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, thank you for giving us another day. Those who omfort suffer from coronavirus. Healing. Bless and comfort those who mourn the loss of loved ones in wake of covid19. Psalmist, we turn to you. Have mercy upon us, o god, for treated harshly. Harshly all t us the day. Attackers. Re our almost high when we are afraid place our trust. We praise the word of god. Not fear. N god and do all the day our enemies foil our plans. Their every thought is of evil against us. Lie in wait for our lives. Our threats are many, o god. Unrest in Police Reform, aggressive russian and policies, a struggling economy. Our time of need. Bless the peoples house and may that is done be for your amen. R honor a