Highly anticipated matchup after a star quarterback tests positive. Whats causing coronavirus numbers to jump again, including in new york city. And Lennie Kravitz lets it fly. The rock star will tell us about the challenges of growing up biracial and finding his own voice. And what a voice it is. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I learned a lot about covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isnt the lets read the book school. Reporter President Trump made a surprise visit to supporters outside walter reed hospital. As many call for transparency. We need to know exactly the level of the president s health. We need to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Have you discussed a scenario in which the president might have to transfer power . No, thats not something on the table at this point, but were prepared. We have a great Vice President. Joe biden tested negative again for the coronavirus. The campaign reaff
Host tonights event with Nikita Stewart with troop 6000, the girl scout troop that began in a shelter and inspired the world, she will talk with the visionary behind it and her daughter, you are in for an excellent time tonight, before we really start i just want to say huge thanks to everyone for making this happen, all of our participants for being here, the publisher and all of you for showing up, the storefront is currently close but our community is here and we really appreciate that. A couple of housekeeping things, if you are logging in now you can see the speakers but they cannot see and hear you, they can see your name so they know youre here, you can use the share icon to share comments, if youre with the girl scouts crew let us know what group youre with, if you want to ask a question we will have a q a section later on with the q a icon and you can click on that to type in your question and if you see a really good one you can upload it to make sure we get to that question
Next speaker, please. Yes, hello. Speaking for equity for older students sm wstudents. We can be reached at equity forr older students dot org. The issue is public land being sold privately forever. City college is in very dire straights. The board of trustees and administration have made massive class cuts including the almost complete disruption of the older adults program. Three hundred classes cut last fall. Five hundred in the year before. This year, huge cuts in the esl program. Campuses are closing. Now theres to be another cut to existing use and potential growth including Affordable Housing and other uses by city college. We urge you to consider that many of the staff and teachers of city college are opposed to this as well. I would lake to bring your attention to two letters that were recently sent to the committee. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im in support of the reservoir project. I hope you move this project forward. Its exactly what we need into san
Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the appropriations committee. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. Our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. We would like to thank [inaudible] sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk . Mr. Clerk. I think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. Id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. A second please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could i have a roll call vote . Im sorry, could you clarify who is the second . Walt supervisor walton walt supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman absent. Yee aye. Ronen sorry, were excusing her. Fewer aye. Clerk chair fewer, aye. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman absent. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. Thank you very muc
Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not onl