Employment, housing, healthcare and professional licensing. Today the United States leads the world incarceration locking up a larger share of population 1 5 california residents currently has a criminal record. Our economy depends on the labor of these currently incarcerated people to introduce everything from military equipment to mcdonalds uniforms and safety depends on the thousands of incarcerated people who put their lives on the line to fight last years devastating wildfires. According to the american bar association, our occupational and Business Licenses laws contain over 27,000 restrictions on formally incarcerated people and argues of exclusionary language only adds to the barriers they face. Changing the way we speak about these individuals is far from a cureall for the isle o i will thank you to his leadership, the department of corrections, the wash Ton Department of corrections inside the United States department of justice have all adopted resolutions committing to use
And i further like to see them expand and build Affordable Housing for low income and very low income bracket people. These that come from me by the time they get to you it takes several years for you to wake up and smell the coffee and doing what i propose. Just like this 600 milliondollar tax by for low income housing. Ive been talking to you about this for years and now you are doing something about t i dont want you to wait that long to take care of this problem here. These organizations are doing to help people in low income and put them to work. Id like to see you expand and build Affordable Housing for those very same incomes of people that you employ. Because you are in position to do so and you can be a leader and theyll follow your lead. Its hard for them to follow my lead. It took me four and a half years to get them to stop giving that multi billion dollar tax breaks to twitter and several other hitech companies. I dont want it to take that long to transact business with yo
Th, 2019. And unlike previous weeks, i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Does any member of the public have any Public Comment on the items requested for continuance . With that, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner koppel . Move to continue items one and two. Second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion to continue the items as proposed. [roll call] so moved. That motion passes unanimously 5 0. Placing is under commission comments and questions. Commissioner moore . I read an interesting article in the journal speaking about demolition versus deconstruction in the city of palo alto. They have joined or taken the example from portland where the demolition of homes is not just simply a demolition anymore, but it is a systematic destruction of the structure to reuse, recycle, and alleviate excessive landfill due to demolition. This particular piece of legislation is going to affect how going to be in effect in palo alto in 2020 and affect com
Lead. It took me four and a half years to get them to stop giving that multi billion dollar tax breaks to twitter and several other hitech companies. I dont want it to take that long to transact business with you. So i gro agree with them. Any other speakers that want to speak in support . Madam clerk, theres still going to be later Public Comment. Is that correct . Is there still going to be the later general Public Comment . Yes, thats later. Im going to speak out are you going to speak in support of this item . The last negro is playing at the roxy, its a brilliant film. Anyone else wants to speak in support . It was mentioned earlier that there are 9,000 needles found on the sidewalks to be picked up every morning. There are as well 9,000 cases of bloodborn rep titus using those using illicit substances in the city so i believe you can contribute by eliminating the needle Waste Program which i would greatly encourage. Supervisor yee come on up. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name
We have not seen a response on the s. S. Sfmta. I do feel like i am a hostage. I feel like i am a slave. A hostage because i cannot leave , it is to too expensive to support my family. I cannot support my family in this area. That is why i feel like a hostage. I cannot go any other place because im stuck in slavery with the medallion. If i didnt have the medallion, i could have gone some other city to serve my case. I feel like the American Dream is dead for me. What about my kids . Is there future dead, too. I wish you guys could just push them a little harder and get these things and lets have this Beautiful Life for my kids and we would pray for you forever and we would see that change because we live in america, we deserve the American Dream for us and for our family. I know you guys are working hard for us, we salute you, but it is not hard enough. They are still going under the water. They need to come up and fix this problem. I really appreciate it, god bless you guys and thank