Chair ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the september 14, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. I am chair hill roe then. With me is supervisor kathrin stefani and victor mar. Our clerk today is victor young. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, to protect the supervisors staff, and public, city hall is closed to all members and staff, however, members of the committee will be participating in the meeting to the extent as if they were physically present. Cable channels 26, 78, and others and sfgovtv. Org website are streaming the event live. To listen in via telephone, call 4156550001 and enter the meeting code 1463791185. Press pound, and pound again. When the line picks up, you will be in listening mode only. When the item that you wish to comment on is up, presidency star, three to enter the queue to speak. Alternatively, you may email your comment to me, at victor. Young sf. G victor. Young sf. Gov. Ch
Transmission. Ordinarily, the brown act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. The executive order has suspended those rules. As noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this meeting by sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the published Public Comment phone number. Id like to welcome members of the public and staff who are watching us live on sfgovtv. Mr. Secretary, please call the roll. [laughter]. Thank you, madame chair. Prior to calling roll, i would like to note that julie chang is sitting in as director. With that i will now proceed to call roll. Directors, please respond when i call your name. Chang present. E. Forbes present. M. Hursh present. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Secretary directors, we have a quorum. Chair sesay and secretary, if i may just a point of clarification, this is a regular meeting, not a special meeting, just a point of clarification for the record. Chair sesay thank you, i
For us . Its going to be a little bit hotter for today and still some smoke drifting in but a very nice start to our friday morning as we head over to pleasant hill. Upper 50s and then atcroclimate coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning commute . Kari, overall green sensors for the commute routes. A lot of closures on our map as well. Were looking at the czu and the scu areas. We do have a new stall southbound across the benicia bridge. Everything should be fine. Ill follow that. Laura, you are following the north bay where we also have closures. Cause for celebration for some affected by the czu lightning complex fire. More evacuation orders are being lifted meaning more can return home. What music to their ears. Jackie ward is live in scotts valley. But theres still, jackie, a lot of people in limbo out there right now. Reporter yeah, thats right. Good morning, laura. 20,000 people are home but that means about 50,000 remain evacuated. We are learning some incredible stor
Even home depot, which was great, is lower, as the whats next is the question that we have. With stacy witless, fw retailer advisors president. Also night one of the Democratic National convention saw democrats ripping it up President Trump with tough words from former First Lady Michelle Obama and bernie sanders. Let me be as honest and clear as i possibly can donald trump the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. But let us be clear. If donald trump is reelected, all the progress we have made will be in jeopardy. And its most basic. This election is about preserving our democracy. Alix joining me now for more is wendy jennison, Bloomberg Politics editor. What was your biggest pic for tonight and how does that set us up for the dnc tonight . The biggest takeaway from last night was the effectiveness of Michelle O
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the commissioner since 2014, and you had spent 22 years at the nba offices before that. And before that, you were a graduate of the two best schools to go to in combination Duke University and the university of chicago law school, right . [laughter] adam which you happened to go to as well. David right. Right. So you cannot do any better than that. So lets just start with the nba today and how it is doing. Honestly, since you have been the commissioner, revenues are up. Ticket sales are up. The owners value of their teams is up by about three times. So are you adequately paid for the job youre doing, do you think . [laughter] david today, the nba seems to be at a peak. Right now, it is very popular all