Signs of optimism and our city no doubt faces serious challenges from the pandemic, Public Safety concerns and negative media. But despite all that, we saw a slight increase in the voters who think that the current Economic Conditions are better than a year ago. This is a very important. Thats right. And not only that, san franciscans are more optimistic about the state of our city, but they are ready to take action. Well dive into the poll results later. A bit later on. But one thing is clear San Francisco voters are supportive of taking action at the ballot for a change in our city, especially when it comes to making it easier to do business and increasing Public Safety. Im confident that 2024 will be a year that lays the foundation for a stronger, more inclusive and even more innovative San Francisco, a foundation that is actually being built by people in this very room here today. And it feels like literally almost every day i get a call from a Member Company who has a new activati
I was in manila in november 1996 when they were holding the apex summit there. And i recall everywhere i turned where bus ads and billboards that read apex 2000. The Philippine Government promised that would bring prosperity and industrialization to the country. But indigenous farmers and workers who were at the front line of the protest knew better. They protested because they knew that the apec agenda would be devastating to their land and livelihood. And fast forward 22 years later, the philippine market has been flooded by foreign rice imports, which local farmers cannot compete with. Nor can a majority of filipinos afford, thereby threatening the nations Food Security and sovereignty. Apex is not about sustainability or shared prosperity. There will be no unions or farmers or indigenous representatives at the apec summit. It will be all the heads of state and billionaire ceos who are there to increase their profits. Bongbong marcos, the son of the late dictator marcos, will be the
Broadcast todays meeting and today our producer mr. Jason goldhammer. Mr. Clerk . I like to reminds you to silence phone and electronics. Documents provided me will be include part of the file as should be submitted to myself. Items are expect today appear on the supervisor agenda on october 31, 2023 unless otherwise stated. That completes my announcements. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1 Charter Amendment. To amend the charter of the city of an fran establish Staffing Levels sworn officers of the Police Department requiring a period of 5 years the mayor and the board of supervisors appropriate funds to meet Staffing Levels establishing a Police Full Staffing fun for a period of 5 years the purpose of facilitating minimum staffing and allowing a temporary froze on appropriations to the funds in the budget and economic emergency and election on march 5 of 2024. Thank you. Item one the Police Full Staffing Charter Amendment. We began working on last march. Some of you may recal
Northern san jose. Today the Council Agrees to start negotiating a plan to put 75 small cabins on a t at the intersection. Now, here is where it gets interesting. The buildings would be fully solarpowered, the first of its kind in our area. And, the billionaire that owns the land wants to lease it to the city for 1 a year. 1. We go to san jose with more on this proposal. Reporter you are looking at 2. 6 acres of land that could be transform into a mobile quick site. It will house 75 cabins and 150 people. Now, i was able to speak with one of the leader whos is pushing for this site to tell us what it could mean for the community. Reporter elizabeth is the founder and ceo of dignity moves. A nonprofit that focuses on ending unsheltered homelessness and assisting and possibly developing this project. It does not end homelessness but it gets the person stabilized where they can take a deep breath and have a chance to work on what the permanent exits are. Reporter she shares that the solar
The strongest public criticism yet of israels conduct of the war in gaza. Secretary of state Antony Blinken said israeli tactics had failed to protect civilians in gaza and failed to neutralize hamas. The Israeli Military today opened a new crossing into gaza. It will allow aid to once again flow into the territory almost a week after israel captured it and shut down the Border Crossing with egypt. Israel urging more than 1 million civilians right now to get out of rafah ahead of an expected push into the heart of the city. Cbss Ramy Inocencio is in tel aviv tonight with more. R ramy. Reporter good evening. Parts of the city of rafah are now abandoned. People fleeing to the coast as israel tries to eradicate hamas from southern gaza. But israels army has also now returned to fighting in northern gaza. Senior military officials publicly fear past gains may be lost. Warned by israels military of a major advance, the tens of thousands who fled to rafah are fleeing again. This is the tenth