President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St
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Hello im David Rubenstein at the library of congress in washington, d. C. As part of the National Book festival and we are pleased today to have Washington State bob gates whos written a book called exercise from power which ive read and recommend. We are going to talk about this book and a little bit about bobs career. I should point out we worked together along time ago about four decades ago in the Carter White House when i was the deputy and bob gates was executive assistant. So in those days, did you ever think you would become one of the most famous secretaries and have this career, did you ever think about that when you worked as executive assistant . We are both in situations today that we never dreamt about in the late 1970s. But i joined the cia in 1966 i was recruited out of the institute in indiana university. And to do my bit in the cold war i never dreamed in those days that i would end up being the director of the cia at the very time the soviet union collapsed. So it wa
Thanhello, everyone. The meeting will come to order, this is the rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, the chair, and im joined by supervisors walton and supervisor handelman. I thank the sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Clerk to protect the Board Members and the employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, and they will participate remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the local and state and federal orders, declarations and directives. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda and both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker is given two minutes to speak. The opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 1 415