Public comment callin dial 14156550001 access code 2664 232 9116 password sfgov dial star 3 to be added to speak in the queue. In addition to inperson Public Comment, the commission will hear up to 15 minutes of remote Public Comment on each agenda item. The commission will hear remote Public Comment on each item in the order that commenters add themselves to the queue to comment on the item. Because of the 15minute time limit, it is possible that not every person in the queue will have an opportunity to provide remote Public Comment. Remote i will now call roll. [roll call] you have a quorum. Item 2. President s welcome. Well start with the land acknowledgment. Ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the San Francisco Fire Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have n
Yield my time. You. Lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello caller, are you with us . Ladies and gentlemen of the board, good evening. I stand before you today to discuss a issue that effects each and every resident of our community. The state of our Public Transit system. As our cities grow, so does the need for reliable efficient and sustainable transit network. Lets talk about accessible. Currently many areas are under served by Public Transit forcing to rely on personal vehicles. This not exacerbates transferic but also limits opportunity for those who cannot afford a car. We must expand our bus and train routes to reach these areas and offer more frequent service, especially during peak hours. Secondly, affordability is a concern. High fares discourage from using Public Transit. I propose we explore options for subsidized fares for low income families, student, senior and most importantly immigrants. We need to purchase as many cattle cars a we can andback to home land to ru
You can see that live on cspan, and later at 2 30 p. M. Eastern marx Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Speaker Paul Reinhold had a News Conference at the retreat. Well bring that to you also on cspan. Sunday night on after words, former speech writer for president george w. Bush and atlantic columnist david frum with his book trumpocracy, the corruption of the american republic. Hes interviewed by Washington Post Nonfiction Book critic. Trumpocracy is a book about the study of power. Thats what the suffix means. This is the study of Donald Trumps power, how does he get it . How does he maintain it and how does he get away with if . Trumpocracy is the system of enabling, its system in the white house, the system between trump and congress, the system between trump and the media that enable him and create an audience. Its the system that involves his the republican donor elite, the traditional elements of the republican bheert have succumbed to him and above all the core g
Can i have everybodys attention in the room, please . Thank you so much. I know time is precious for a lot of people and we have a lot of important guests with us and i want to make sure everyones time is honored and i will thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just tps to challenge challenge us in a significant way and theres no reason to believe that theyll suffer through disasters of one type or another and cities along with states of the federal government have been working very, very hard before and siggive nifican before and after september 11th to organize ourselves as a country so we can recover from disasters that happen so we prepare with them and so we can rebuild and when bad things happen were not hurt nearly as bad and i am thrilled to have elaine duke, deputy of Homeland Security who oversees not only Homeland Security in the country, but fema and the recovery agencies, as well. Mayor Sylvester Turner of houston, texas, who of course, went throu
Lets call this session to order. If everybody who is all right. Whoever is going to be in, get in. Whoever is going to not, dont. All right. Thank you all. Thank you all so much. Can i have everybodys attention in the room, please. Thank you so much. I know time is precious for a lot of people and we have a lot of very important guests and i want to make sure that everybodys time is honored. Im just thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just continues to challenge us in a very significant way in the country, and theres no reason to believe its going to abate. All of us are going to suffer through disasters of one type or another, and cities along with states and the federal government, have been working very, very hard, before and significantly after september 11th to make sure we organize ourselves as a country so that we can recover quickly from disasters that happen so we prepare for them, and so that we build in a way where were resilient. When bad things