[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
Outside sources as well as on the table. Half of nprs kitchen sisters producers of the kitchen series for the morning addition and i will your moderator for the conversation and child food is fundamental. Joining me are two of the most revolutionary food activists in the bay area. Case there the nation. Their mavericks in their field, Saru Jayaraman is a new book by beck people take on corporate food and winning. Directive you see Berkeley School Labor Research center, cofounder of the Restaurant Opportunity Center united and president of one fair wage. Alice waters is berkeleys mountain is 49th year. And the edible schoolyard project now in its 25th year. A program that has ignited a network of some 7000 Edible Education projects around the world. Alice is also the author of some 17 books including her upcoming manifesto about the power of food. Under sipping of the National Medal of honor from president barack obama. Welcome to you both. Thank you. Alice, lets start with you. Food is
Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Question looms large who pays for the t. V. And toilet paper the answer according to the dutch is your bosses and how much about 2 year 0 s. Or 2. 40 per working day on average this is interesting the lockdown has shifted the way people relationship with their bosses of their companies and how to account for costs and a down to the granularity of toilet paper and the only industry i know where toilet paper costs are incorporated in the p. And l. On a monthly or weekly basis is in the prison business in prison people d are very parsimonious with their toilet paper and its all accounted for due to the nature of that industry so this is what coronaviruses done is created this Prison Planet type of situation certainly and the workers in the netherlands 80 percent of them are racked are basically part of organized labor they have collected. Bargaining so this is what theyre fighting over is 2. 02 euros a day for toilet paper that they now have to buy a home that they used to use at the offi
Industry so this is what coronaviruses done is created this Prison Planet type of situation certainly and the workers in the netherlands 80 percent of them are racked are basically part of organized labor they have collective bargaining so this is what theyre fighting over is 2. 02 euros a day for toilet paper that they now have to buy a home that they used to use at the office and this is apparently considered a right across the rest of europe we see spain has obliged employers to pay for home office meat and some equipment germany is debating a bill in trying to Remote Workers rights francis passed a law shielding them from after hours email of course while britain has hinted that it may relax the rules on Tax Deductions for work related equipment purchased during the pandemic of course we just passed a tax bill a huge one last year here in america and that got rid of that Tax Deduction if for things you have to buy from home for work that is not reimbursed from your office like in a