The public and the staff. Mr. Secretary, could you call the roll for today . I would like to note that chang is sitting in as baptistes alternate. Chang present. D. Eltawansy here. E. Forbes present. B. Lipkin present. D. Shaw present. J. Tumlin present. Mandelman absent. Chair gee present. Directors, we have quorum. I will call your next item. Directors, item 3 is communications. We like to remind the public that the Public Comment process is listed on the agenda and streaming on the screen. Are there any other communications from the Board Members at this time . Chair gee not seeing any hands raised. I will proceed. Directors, item 4 is board of directorss new and or old business. Seeing no hands raised, i will proceed to call the next item. Chair gee please, thank you. Item 5 is the executive directors report. Thank you. Good morning, directors. As youre aware, c. E. O. Ann rosens last day is tomorrow, april 9. We wish her well. We will kick off the meeting with the management partn
Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President walton thank you very much, madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the ancestral land. Land of the Ramaytush Ohlone. The Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, forgotten, or abandoned their responsibilities to this place. As yet, we recognize that we benefit from living on and working from their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the members, elders, and ancestors of the Ramaytush Ohlone. Please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president walton and on behalf of the San Francisco board of supervisors, we would like to acknowledge sfgovtv who records each of the meetings and making them available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. The board recognizes that city access to Public Services is essential and invites Public Participation in the following ways. You are able to send your written correspondence to be
Restrict vote fres exercising their voting rights. We try to make our elections as accessible and possible by opening early voting and at city hall and vote by mail ballot last year in the middle of a pandemic and providing drop off boxes in every district including all precincts on election day. Georgias new voting law is a clear attempt to make it harder for back people and people of color to exercise their rights to vote. Throughout history, theres been efforts to restrict people of color from vote north this country and we have another example of that. This is a threat to democracy and here are some of the restrictions, voters will have less time to request absentee ballots. There are strict new i. D. Requirements for voting and residents when need a georgiaissued photo i. D. It is now illegal for Election Officials to mail in app ot applications for our vetters. They have to request it themselves. Early voting sex pannedded in small coun tease and not in populous coun tease and of
Recommend that you use the zoom audio or a telephone for Public Comment, you may submit a written Public Comment through the chat function on zoom. Thank you to sf gov tv and Media Services for sharing this meeting with the public. We can start with the roll call. [role call]. Dont forget me im sorry, commissioner. Here. Okay, first order of business is Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment for items not listed on the agenda . Vicepresident , i am checking the audience, and there are no hands raised and there are no comments in the chat. Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next item on the agenda is item 2, approval of our minutes for the january 19, 2021 meeting. We have a motion on the approval of the minutes . So moved. Second. Commissioner thomas . Aye. Commissioner lee . Aye. Commissioner aye. Commissioner perez . Aye. Commissioner wang . Aye. Commissioner binen . Aye. Did i just miss it . Did we do Public Comment on the minutes . No, we didnt. So i think we sho
Theres no better Training Ground through the Small Business commission and through going to the different commercial corridors and so grateful that i have the opportunity to do that while also serving the commission and businesses. Each corridor has its own personality and thats what i love about San Francisco and thats what i loved about it biff even moved out here and im so grateful that i was able to positively contribute in some way to making those corridors over the past few years. When you are in the thick of things, the results of your work but i would like to think that i did have a positive impact while ive been here and that i am so grateful that i got to work with all of and you get to know all of you and where you are own personal allegations lie for the Small Business community and what your motivations are and how you what brought you to the Small Business commission and why they did things. This is a volunteer position and youve spent collectively, i dont know how many h