Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via 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 sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Many aspects of daily life. That includes food, socializing and science. The u. S. Capital Historical Society provided video of this event. Today is the inaugural scholar series. We thought we would start with our own. Hes really one of the nations finest scholars on the First Congress. And the early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the u. S. Cbs society team for five years prior. Prior to that he was working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources like letters of the times. Where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions. We may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation, but the majority
Working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. We invite you to stay with us for questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions we may be able to do during the presentation. The majority of the questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. Please put your questions in and i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much for the work you have done to put this together and welcome to the platform. Chuck welcome, everyone. I am really happy to pull this off. Imaginative tell an story. So let your minds go. This is not a straightforward narrative. We will touch a lot of points. The point of departure for me came with the publication of my book. It is my b
Congress and that early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the uscs society team for five years, prior to that he was 27 years working on the First Congress program. And so he has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the times, where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation, and i will work through the questions and we have a couple of questions, we may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation but the majority of our questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. So please put your questions in and ill try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much, chuck, for the work youve done to put this together and welcome to the platform. W
Be changing of course were going to be anywhere from mild. So even warm in some spots not hot though were going to be very below normal for this time of year. So i will get to all those details in just a few minutes now back to the news okay. Thank you very much were back at 6 oclock weve got update you on the latest with the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Is set to very soon now pass. Another grim milestone with a 141,000 americans dying from the virus across america nearly 60,000 people are currently hospitalized with infection. The cdc now forecasting more than a 157,000 americans will be killed by the virus. By august 8th, and now Health Officials and government leaders are pushing for americans to where masks. Our decisions not our conditions are decisions that will determine our fate and future as it relates to the spread of this virus. Months after the cdc first recommended doing it President Trump is now also telling americans that its necessary to wear masks in fact tweeted a