We will get your thoughts on what grade you would give your governor on this pandemic, but lets begin with south dakotas governor. Take a look at the state. This is from nbc news. A 19 increase over the past two weeks. Here is republican south dakota governor kristi noem defending her approach. [video clip] across the country and around the globe, cases are increasing. Over the past week, cases are on the rise in 48 states. Some have said that my refusal to mandate masks is the reason why our cases are rising here in the state of south dakota. That is not true. Others have said that my refusal to advance harsh restrictions like lockdowns is another one of the reasons why our cases are rising, and that is also not true. There are 41 states that have some kind of a mask mandate. Cases are on the rise in 39 of those 41 states. Some in the media are saying that south dakota is the worst in the world right now. That is absolutely false. I would encourage you to look at the Johns Hopkins cor
Secure, accessible and fair. Given the Record Number of absentee ballots and narrow margin in the november 3 election for president in georgia, i join many in backing a hand recount and urging a thorough investigation into any voting irregularities. The secretary of state oversaw a complete audit which revealed significant errors made in several counties including floyd, fayette, douglas and walton. It is important for georgians to know that the vast majority of local election workers did their job well under unprecedented circumstances and i thank them for their service. However, it is quite honestly hard to believe that during the audit thousands of uncounted ballots were found weeks after a razor thin outcome in a president ial election. This is simply unacceptable. Ive heard directly from countless georgians, they expect better and they deserve better. Its important to note that this audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures on the absentee applications or the signatures on
Next, the Wilson Center hosting a discussion on the state of the organization for security and cooperation in europe which consists of 57 european and north american states and was created in the early 1970s to provide security and protect human rights. This is an hour and a half. Jane todays event is sponsored by our tpwhrobal Europe Program under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take overing moring this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki ommission. Dan jones the Wilson Center after holding positions in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responseable for nato, the osce and transatlantic security issue os they have in ordericbaltic and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for
Clearly, his bright light will continue to shine. Rest in peace, ronnie chapman. You will be missed. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, im introducing a resolution along with supervisor ronen urging the association of bay area governments, abag, in its up coming Regional Housing needs allocation, or rhna, to maintain their current housing level needs in San Francisco. The California Department of housing and Community Development recently assigned the bay area a new region wide rhna Housing Production goal that is 2. 35 times more than our existing one, or our goal of producing nearly 500,000 new homes in eight years throughout the bay area. San francisco should take a position on how the numbers will be allocated to local jurisdictions, as it will have a real impact on Speculative Development in our city if the goals are not met. If our housing goal is artificially too high, it will trigger s. B. 35. We know that socalled streamlining woul
San francisco has shareholdeou much of the housing load and are already at 140 of our market rate housing goal in our current cycle, which goes until 2022. We do not need to increase our market Rate Housing Development goal, especially now as we see an exodus of hilowincome works out of San Francisco. The Affordable Housing needs are great, as we all know. San francisco has roughly 49,000 extremely rent burdened households in 2015, the overwhelming majority of housing facing cost burden, are very lowincome and extremely lowincome households, and a majority of lower income households are house burdened. During the covid19 pandemic, the Housing Needs of low to moderate Income Housing workers have become increasingly evident. So this urges abag and rnha to focus on current Housing Needs in San Francisco [inaudible]. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, mr. President , i have a number of items that i would like to presen