Cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we can. Divet. It is now 1 13 p. M. Sorry for the delay. My name is miguel bustos, and this is the regular meeting on committee on Community Investment and infrastructure, january 19, 2021. Following the guidelines set forth by local and state officials during this health emergency, the members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including members of public. Thank you all for joining us. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order is business is item 1, roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. [roll call] clerk all members of the commission are present. The next order is business is item 2, announcements. The next reg
Registration policy. This is about one hour. Elections are under attack from so many different arenas, russian meddling from 2016 and that has expanded with china and iran and other foreign actors. A lot of the misinformation coming out right now is coming from sources in addition to russia. It can be from canada to campaigns and social media, facebook, twitter, there is a lot of misinformation out there. It moves toward the problems with voting by mail. The mail seems to have been a National Story now as to whether you can trust the mail or not. That is what covid19 has brought to the fore. We need to provide those options and should never put someones health at risk to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Thats where many people have turned to the mail including West Virginia and within balance of law, thats one of the key points, you have to stay within your state law. The elections are run by the states and by the counties. While people may hear of something thats happening
Pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being wiped out. As a japanese american im concerned about Small Businesses facing eviction in japan town. If these businesses fail, it opens the door to property being sold to developers. They may transform the property and change the charter of japan town, similar to what happened to the International Hotel property in malil a town where the hilton hotel now stands. Please support these ordinance to give Small Businesses a fighting chance to survive and preserve our communities of color. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Great timing. Thank you. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello caller . If you press star 3 and you have are unmuted start speaking lets see if thats you. Well go bax to the next person. Can you hear me now . Yes, welcome. Very quickly, im following gill, marina and the atu local 1575 president and Mary Travis Allen and happy to be in that group. I note the unfortunate p
Digital democracy, the elections are under attack from so many different arenas. We are aware of the russian meddling from 2016 and that seems to have expanded with china, iran, and other foreign actors trying to meddle in our elections. A lot of the misinformation coming out right now is coming from sources in addition to russia. It can be from candidates and campaigns and social media, facebook, twitter, google, there and it moves towards the problems of voting by mail. The National Story now is to whether you can trust the mail or not and that is what covid19 has brought to the fore. We need to provide those options. We should never put somebodys health at risk to exercise their constitutional right to vote. That is where a lot of people have turned to the mail including West Virginia, and what we have done, within the bounds of law, you have to stay within your state law, these elections are run by the state and within the states and then by the counties. Hear ofople may something
Workout a deal for our tenants that they can stay in japan town. We cannot lose these tenants as they account t account to 90 in town. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Thank you, very much. Its a hard job. I cant do what you guys do. I would fall asleep. Sir, can you speak into your phone. We can barely hear you. Ok. Well, i guess he hung up. Operations is there another call, please. Caller can you hear me . Hi, my name is joyce and im a resident of district 3 in speaking in support of the ordinances introduced by supervisors peskin and preston. To stoppie convictions and extend the moratorium on rents for Small Businesses effected by covid. In the 1970 i was involved in commuting organizing to stop the further destruction of the japan townchinatown malil a town communities created by redevelopment. Fast forward to 2020 and the effects of the covid19 pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being