The determination by the Planning Department that the proposed project is categorically exempt from further environmental review. Item 38 is a motion conditionally reversing the determination, and item 39 is the motion to prepare the findings. I believe you may be muted, mr. President. President yee i believe these items were continued to a later date. Supervisor mandelman, did you have any remarks . Supervisor mandelman yes. I did not anticipate we would be continuing this today. Weve continued it several times. Yes, this has been pending for us for sometime, initially, it was delayed because of shelter in place. More recently, we have continued it a couple of times because of the because of health issues. The counselor for the appellants is sue hester, who i think folks know, and she believed that she would be able to present and participate today, and then turned out, for reasons beyond her control, that she would not, but she promises that she will be available if and will not ask
Role. Thank you, deborah. Members of the public may observe this teleconferencing meeting at sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and the staff for watching us live on sfgovtv. I also want to wish please call the roll. Before i begin, i will note for the record that due to a scheduling conflict, director tavares is not expected to join us. Directors, please respond. E. Forbes here. Supervisor haney here. M. Hursh here. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin here. Vice chair gee here. Chair sesay present. We have quorum. The next item is item 3, communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the number, 18552826330, and enter access code 126 698 0794. Then pound and pound again. And then listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members of the public have up to three minutes to provide comment on e
Commissioner black. Yes. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner mat soda. Yes. Commissioner president hyland. Yes. So moved, commissioners that passes 70. Someone is requesting to speak. Commissioners, is staff prepared to make the presentation. Yes. Do you have a slide presentation . Yes, i do. Okay. I see a blank screen. Let me try again. Clerk in the slide presentation mode . Good afternoon, commissioners. [inaudible] Planning Department staff. The item before you today is [inaudible] located at [inaudible] tand the will go [rights movement. The building is further significant as the work of master architect julia morgan. It was the fir at the time of its founding, japanese advanced multiple political and social causes, including the site for African American civil rights and [inaudible] with dr. Martin luther king, jr. And was a central organizer of the 1963 protest on washington used it as a headquarters for
Thank you so much for joining us. Last week when we announced some rollbacks around the restaurants and a number of other businesses, we did make it clear that we are sadly seeing an increase in the number of covid cases and in fact, last week our reproductive rate was at 1. 2 and today it is at 1. 3. Just this past friday we have seen an increase in over 20 o cases. Our case as of today are 13,756 with 38 people who are hospitalized, 156 people who have lost their lives since the beginning of this pandemic in San Francisco in particular and the Positivity Rate is at 1. 87. Dr. Grant colfax is joining me to talk more specifically about the numbers and what they mean and where we are, the same way he did so last week. What were seeing here and what weve seen all over the country is what looks like to be a significant uptick, one that we have to pay i a tension to. And more importantly, one that has put San Francisco which has been really a leader on fighting against this pandemic, it ha
I see no hands. Next item. Was the calendar of future meetings . I think it was everything right . Was it difficult . I called everything, yes. Im going to ask that we schedule donte king here present at the Commission Bias is an extremely important topic which addresses the bias in policing. This revision and all the hard work we did Means Nothing if were not willing to address issues of bias, racism and antiblack sentiments within the department. When the allegations came to light back in february 2020, i asked that this matter be agendized so we can speak get directly to mr. King and address these troubling allegations. Our request was made to investigate the allegations. However, thats not d. P. A. s responsibility or their jurisdiction. As the policy making body of the San Francisco Police Department, it is incumbent upon us to find out the truth of the allegations and address them. Last week i did ask to agendize this item. I believe that what was agendized was a report by d. P.