Within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into a debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of the statements made during the Public Comment. Any member wish to give Public Comment . If you do, please approach the podium for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Clerk approval of the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes august 28, 2019. If there is a member of the public to give Public Comment on item three, please approach the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary, in terms of this mornings meeting, members of the public, chief nicholson needs to attend an all Staff Required meeting with the mayor in terms of
Hearing on legislation governing retransmission of broadcast Television Content by satellite tv companies. Representatives from the National Association of broadcasters, at t, the cable industry, and the Public Interest group testified at this hearing held by house energy and subcommittee on communications. There we go. Will now come to order. The chair recognizes himself for five minutes. Good morning, id like to welcome everyone to the subcommittees first hearing for stellar and evolving marketplace. Id like to thank our witnesses for appearing before us to address these important issues. Five years ago passed the act, extended authorization for Satellite Television companies to provide broadcast content to unserved households. According to satellite tv industry, this provision enables roughly 870,000 customers in mostly rural to receive broadcast television signals. These customers fall into a few categories, first is households that cant receive content using an antenna. Second is
Thank you very much, director kosinski, and your staff. I think these mostly addressed the concerns. The question whether it should be an ordinance or in the charter, to be clear. All of the commissions are in the charter. If we would create this by charter, it wouldnt be a Charter Commission that has all the responsibilities and duties defined in the charter. So we think its important that we have something that has. I think this is in many ways recognizing that this department is here to stay. One of the reasons why this this department maybe the main reason why this department doesnt have a commission currently is because its a new department. Its only been around a couple years, and the advisory structure that we have is here from a time when we didnt have a Single Department with the authority that your department has, had a single director and all of that. So i want to be clear that one of the things that were doing here by having a Charter Commission is recognizing the critical
The advisory committees who do such important work. I realize this is an awkward thing to be coming out and speaking in support of oversight over a department that you work so regularly with. So i imagine that, you know, i just want to appreciate your courage and your partnership on this. I think it says a lot that the people who are on the front lines of serving our population thats experiencing homelessness believes strongly that there should be more accountability, transparency, and public input. I think that says a lot. Yes, i talk a lot about speed, and i dont think this is going to slow things down, but theres nothing more wrong than getting it wrong and having to do it over and over and over again. We have to listen to these folks not just at the beginning but throughout the process to make sure that we get it right. And when we deny them that opportunity, we are going to create so many delays throughout the process because were going to have to spend money to fix our mistakes,
If you are utilizing interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and to display documents on the overhead projector. Just place it underneath the projector, mention it, then remove it when you like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Members of the board, my name is amos brown, im Senior Pastor of Third Baptist Church and president of the San Francisco branch. The National Association of the branch for coloured people and a former member of this body. I wish to say happy pride month to you. I give you this greeting against a backdrop, one of George Bernard shaw most eloquent quotes. When he said, the worst sin for our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be in different to them. That is the essence of inhumanity, end of quote. Now i do not make these comments to be insulting, but still a truth. Human beings can make oversights , but we do say, to air is human, but to give his divine. I would like to invite all of you to g