The San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk okay. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov or sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The record will reflect that since the declaration of local Health Emergency as a result of the covid19 disease, the members of the board of supervisors are participating in the Board Meeting through Video Conference and to the same extent as if they were physically present in their legislative chamber. Provisions have also been made for the public with and without the internet to be able to
Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. Test captions. Test captions. Test captions. Test. Test. Test. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the may 19, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk okay. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov or sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The record will reflect that since the declaration of local Health Emergency as a result of the covid19 disease, the members of the board of supervisors are participating
And now is the best time to do it. We are doing a good job, but we could be doing much better and time is of the essence. And last week and is a bad time to be gutting the smta board when the decisions need to be made with quorum, with qualified advocates like director rubke who is a passionate advocate for disabled and the people with disabilities community. And last but not least i love for this making duty free for all. And to come up with funding structure and build ridership up and those who do not feel comfortable riding muni, we need to have space to use bikes to get around the city safely without conflicting with cars so we dont see a spike in deaths related to vehicle collisions. We continue to have vision zero in mind. Mr. President , it seems as though there are no other callers in the queue. Oops. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Okay. All right. Seeing no other callers, then Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call the for adoption without Committee Reference age
City marina. This is happening at sims metal, which is on seaport boulevard. Its across the road from the salt marshes and near a google campus. We want to see if we can get you some live images right now from sky seven. There they are. Firefighters. Theyve been able to control the fire. We do have a crew on site there. Theyre working to get more details on how this fire started and what damage has been caused so far. Well bring it to you when we get it. Thanks so much for joining us. Im Julian Glover and im ama daetz. The other big story were following tonight, the city of oakland sale of their share of the oakland of the coliseum land. It is a deal thats worth 105 million. Abc seven News Reporter ryan curry has the details and explains how this might help the citys budget. Swinging for the fences on a project that could forever change the coliseum grounds, mayor shengtao announced the city will sell its share of the coliseum land. The buyer, the African American sports and entertainm
Neighborhoods. Santa clara county fire posted on x within this last hour that smoke is moving into parts of the county. The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said those who are sensitive to smoke should remain indoors if possible. We spoke with a man who works right next door at a water recycling facility, he said. Small fires have broken out here, but nothing this large. It didnt look too crazy because usually theres fires over next door, maybe a small ones, and they get put out pretty, pretty quick. But, i guess it was. It wasnt contained as fast. And then. So it kind of broke out a little bit and, and started smoking over in our area next door today we had to stop for maybe an hour or so while it got contained. Now we are right next to the redwood uh the port of redwood city, so it tends to be a lot breezier here. Redwood city fire tells me that they will remain scene on within the next hour, sims metal does have crews there standing by in case of fire does reignite and the depu