Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via 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 sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Yeah. Ill just add to that, and ill channel kristin marshall, maybe, from the d. O. P. E. Project, that its connected to income inequality, its connected to homelessness, its connected to racism, its connected to sort of our punitive system around substance use, so i think if we can make advancements in those areas, as well, that well see reductions in Overdose Deaths. Supervisor haney thank you. Again, i dont want to take this out all on you, but the frustration, i hope you can understand my frustration. These are people who i represent largely. Theyre dying, theyre dying at rates weve senever seen, and seems theyre going to continue to die at higher and higher rates, and we need to understand how we can save them. We cannot help them, we cannot do anything for anyone if theyre no longer with us. I appreciate and i understand your work, but as a policy maker who represents all of these folks and their friends and their families and their neighbors, i think that we need to have a more
More on all of this massive stock market volatility with 59 minutes left of trade. Coming up in the show, were down 2. 5 on the s p 500 and we have a big show coming up for you today were going to talk about all of those things that you just mentioned. We have former cisco ceo John Chambers coming up were going to talk about the comments from President Trump about potential decoupling between the u. S. And china and you will not want to miss what he has to say he previously used to run major Multinational Organization that operated both in the u. S. And had a small part of the business in china and then on todays selloff, you want to hear from Mike Novogratz the ceo and founder of galaxy digital. He said there was a frenzy in stocks he called for major selloff and what do we have on our hands now . Well hear what novogratz has to say now. Lets get to the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli is tracking another rough session for the market phil lebeau is following major moves in
Can we have the next caller. Caller good evening, supervisors. Todd snyder for district 5. I thank you for amending this measure next week and supporting it thus far. I ask that you continue to support it today. And i want to point out that an arbitrary number of Sworn Police Officers provides no flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of our city. And this came from a Consent Decree entered into in 1979. And lifted in 1998. It has no relevance to the city today. So i urge you to continue to support this measure and to put it before the voters on the ballot in november. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller i already spoke once and i have been unmuted. Clerk i believe this person has already spoken before per their comment. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller yes, im a native san franciscan, and im in my 60s. I want to express that changing the charter to minimal staffing is a deadly Public Policy decision on your part. No doubt that crimina
1467731245, and as always, i would ask that you mute your mute the television or any sounds in the background so that its easier for us to hear you. And commissioners, i would ask that you would mute yourself and unmute yourself when you want to be heard. Just as last week, please put your name in the chat if you would like to be heard. Sergeant youngblood. Clerk thank you, commissioner. For members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv. At the moment, you can get to our meeting by going to sfgovtv. Org. When Public Comment is announced either for the line item or general comment, dial starthree. This will advise the moderator that you want to speak and add you to the queue. When you dial starthree, you will hear a prompt that indicates you have raised your hand. This is your time to provide Public Comment. Once you provide Public Comment, you will be moved back into the Public Meeting and out of the queue unless and until you want to comment on another item, and yo