President yee good afternoon welcome to the november 10th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk all members of present, mr. President. President yee thank you. Please plays your righthand over your heart. Join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. President yee thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. Who coordinates our meetings and makes the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Current Health emergency, the Meeting Minutes will reflect that the Board Members participated in this proceeding remotely through Video Conferencing to the same extent as though physically present.
To try to avoid sliding backward. And marin restaurants being asked to reduce and what Indoor Dining to 25 occupancy. At 10 00, live with how that message is being received. Reporter they have seen about nine new cases a day jumped the past week, even doubled. Restaurants are being urged to scale back. Families celebrating his 60th birthday at their favorite restaurant, a milestone also because its the first and dining since march. The bug i might feel perfectly safe with the distancing. Even though we are inside. An steppes of utter heat lamps, other customers dining on a 50 degree evening. And they expect to ship more dining out here now that marin top officer once and for occupancy cut by half. If he thinks thats a good idea, we are happy to do that and go back to 25 . As long as we can stay there. Reporter arendt has been a 50 capacity in only a few weeks. The need to keep guests of part dictates how many can be served. There have been super spreader events described from restauran
Clerk all members of present, mr. President. President yee thank you. Please plays your righthand over your heart. Join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. President yee thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. Who coordinates our meetings and makes the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Current Health emergency, the Meeting Minutes will reflect that the Board Members participated in this proceeding remotely through Video Conferencing to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access is essential and more acute during the time of covid19 and therefore were hoping the public will take advantage of the following opportunities to communicate with
The comments in the document should be acknowledged, either comment received or this is where you can find this information further, so that people, when they take the time to engage in public projects, that their comments are responded to, and they think that theres a consideration taken in the public involvement. Operator thank you, caller. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Pilpell. That was a good comment. Are there any other members of the public for this item . Operator there are no other Public Comments. Chair peskin all right. Seeing no further Public Comment, Public Comment is closed, and this is an information item. As i se as i said earlier, this is an item that has been going on and off for the last two decades, and i think many of us thought this was the time to resurrect this item that started under the leadership of louise moscovitch many years ago. There has been no provenation about anything. We want to do it right, but we want to go about, albeit difficult during covid, a ro
Going out now. All vote by mail ballots in california come with prepaid postage and you can return your ballot at any time to and including election day. November 3rd. The envelope must be sealed, signed and dated. It can be turned into your county elections office, a ballot drop box, a vote center or any polling place. And if youre mailing it back, there is more time this year for it to arrive because of the concerns about the u. S. Postal service. Now, a ballot with a postmark no later than northern 3rd can be received as late as november 20th and it will still count. You can track your ballot online through the secretary of states website. And earlier today on abc 7 news at 4 00, we spoke live with the secretary of the state alex padilla about the benefits of voting by mail. Its convenient. You get to vote from the comfort and safety of your own home and it is proven to be secure. So any suggestion otherwise is, frankly, not true, and only seeks to undermine confidence in our electi