Vice chair eaken. Here. Eaken present. Director heminger. Here. Have you a quorum. Though were legally required to have on the agenda to make its announcement because its clear were all using sound producing devices during the meeting we wont make the announcement. Approval of the october 20, 2020 meeting. Im ask the moderator to open the bridge and ask colleagues if theres amendments to the Meeting Minutes from october 20. Seeing none, is there Public Comment . Moderator is anyone on the line . Have you zero questions remaining. Well close Public Comment. So moved. Is there a second . Second. Chair borden secretary boomer please call the roll. [roll call] director eaken youre very faint. [roll call] madame chair, we can approve the minutes. Item 5, communications. Chair borden i lovely speech i get to give at every meeting. All members are participating Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors and public. In the published notice for the meeting a
New numbers in napa did not surprise the county health director. Were at the point where weve exceeded 100 per 100,000 cases in the last 14 days. Now were on the states monitoring list. Reporter indoor dining, done. If restaurants have outside patios, service may continue and so will the stress for owners who can only guess about staffing and buying food. Its devastating to open and close and open and close and nobody knows what to do next. Reporter so they improvise. Do you mind if i take your temperature . Reporter theyve already closed the indoor tasting room and moved it outside. Inovation, the next best option against the tide of a virus. Until theres a vaccine or something, i dont see us going back to a lot of inside we prepared this could go on for some time. Now the obvious question, what happened in napa . They were doing so well. They opened early. One of them, a restaurant we saw, she tells me she thinks napa is aville of its own successful people came back into town. They w
Kreutz abc 7 news. Liz, can you talk about the mood there . Are people excited about this race . Reporter yeah, i think enthusiasm it kind of varies. Theres a poll out that shows that only a third of San Franciscoen approve of the work shes doingment ev. In terms of the election overall, right now its a little quiet. There was a huge rush just a few minutes ago of people dropping off their ballots after work. People excited to be part of the process, make their voice heard. I think its safe to say were not going to see the turnout that were probably going to see next year in the 2020 election. Back to you guys. Thank you so much. The race for San Franciscos District Attorney is between four candidates. Susie loftus is running for a full term after being appointed to the position by the mayor. Also running, nancy tung, and chrks there you see her family. She says voters have been telling her theyre concerned with core issues ranging from serious crime in the city to quality of life in t
Therefore, it has no merit as opposed to see the potential for good restoration. I think this is a critical piece. When people talk about were losing San Francisco, theyre talking about not that we dont want anything new, but they see too much of the beautiful things that define our character being lost. We can marry both. This is an important priority. And it needs to be a priority of our next director. Thank you very much. President melgar thank you, commissioner. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners and, thank you, president melgar, for allowing us to come and speak to the commission about this item. Im anastasia, im a tenant and housing advocate. In my view, a new director has to recognize and respect San Franciscos history, architecture and its people and acknowledge that our city is not for sale. A new director must not be cow towed by big money. The arena numbers show too much marketrate housing as opposed to too little new housing for lowincome residents is being
This is not just the inability of so many workers to find housing in our city today, but also how the income inequality that we have created in the city , is affecting every decision that we make. We keep acting as though the housing crisis is entirely separate from the growth of income inequality. Going back to that research that the Directors Team produce. In 1990, folks that made over 200,000 made up 9 of the city residents. Today they make over 27 of city residents, adjusted for inflation. That is a dramatic change that affects how housing crisis are affected. It affects displacement, it affects land costs, a city that sees land costs going up by 23 every year. That is where i would put my money. It affects the rate of construction. Right now, we build for that top 27 . We built actually for the top 10 earn more than 200,000. When that limit is reached, if you look at all of the newspaper articles right now, building slows down. Until we address that, we are not going to solve this