Welcome to the july 20, 2020, meeting. With me is vice chair stefani and gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. Yes, to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda, both channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. You can call in via phone, calling 4156550001. The meeting id is 146 308 2077. Then press pound and pound again. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, press star three to be added to the speaker line. Call fro
Volunteer at San Franciscos Suicide Prevention and i see callers call in regularly about the distress theyre going through because of the inability to afford housing or living on the street because theyre homeless and also on a personal level because my mom, my mother is a recipient of low Income Housing in washington state. Without this ability for her to qualify or not having a place for her to stay, i dont know how i personally would be able to help or support her as im the only family she has here in the country. I think about it as racist, it is not okay and its inhumane. There is no excuse for us not to provide options for everybody and the solutions should not be if you dont like it, go somewhere else. Thank you so much for your support and that is all. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker . Hi, this is munoz, calling from district five. I want to thank supervisor preston for introducing this ballot proposition. I am in strong support of municipal social housing he
Was battling american troops in afghanistan and weve been examining this egregious attack on americans and the Trump Administrations failure to handle it appropriately. Itsimportant for the public to know this. Ive been involved in four hearings this week alone we dealt with this issue. That doesnt include the actions of other committees working on their own so i want to underscore to people listening that they should know that wein congress have taken oversight of this matter very seriously. Party politics and everything inside the one thing if we do nothing else one of the most basic and fundamental duties is to do everything in our power tokeep americans safe. We all went to the Service Members whose lives were lost in afghanistan. We owing to their families. We to every member of our military, to every american serving abroad puts their life on the line every day in service to our country. On tuesday the subcommittee heard from former us officials and experts on the kremlins networ
Committee in january of 2019 and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats. Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow. That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea. Raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote, our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the Cyber Capabilities including
Immigrants celebrated after the nations highest court ruled the Trump Administrations attempt to end the federal program known as d. A. C. A. Was illegal and capricious. John roberts joined the four lib ras in the ruling. He wrote, we do not decide whether d. A. C. A. Or the rescission are sound policies. President trump responded on twitter, writing in part, these horrible and politically charged decisions are shotgun blasts into the face of people proud to call themselves republicans or conservatives. President obama signed the order in 2012. The policy was described to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children from deportation. Often referred to as dreamers. 90 hold jobs and 45 are enrolled in school according to a government study. Nearly 30,000 are working in the health care system. I work as a pediatric i. C. U. Nurse. I had to transition to adult i. C. U. Reporter in 2017, the Trump Administration announced the end of the program, arguing it was created wi