Hello im San Francisco mayor london breed i want to thank everyone in San Francisco. Thank you for your patience, for your resilience and listening to our Public Health leaders. I know the last several months havent been easy for anyone. They certainly havent been easy for me. Everyday i hear about the struggles people are going through from friends from family members and from the community. While San Francisco has been a leader in the fight against this pandemic, everyday we suffer losses. People are losing their jobs, people are losing their grip on their Mental Health. Worst of all, people are losing family members to this disease. Even as we endure these losses, im hopeful for the future. These months of Public Health crises and social unrest has shown us that when we come together, we can have the hard conversations and make the tough choices to do what needs to be done. Not just save lives but to address systemic racism head on and change society as we know it. I know today is a
We have private and Public Gardens throughout the garden tour. All of the gardens are volunteers. The only requirement is youre willing to show your garden for a day. So we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. Its a variety all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. I have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. In the early 1800s the portola was farmland. The regions flowers were grown in this neighborhood. If you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. In the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. One of the ways it has done that is th
You may address the board once per agenda item for two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. [roll call] president tsen here. Director dunlop here. Vice president lai here. Director richardson here. We do have a quorum. President tsen excellent. Before we begin, hello, directors and members of the public. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am sorry that we still to conduct our meetings by teleconferencing. And i ask that everybody be patient as there is a lag time sometimes to hear the Public Comment. But our able secretary kate austin will guide us through the process. I would like to start the meeting with a quote, whose life and words inspired so many of us. He wrote a letter which was published and i quote from that letter. He says, ordinary people with extraordinary visions can redeem the soul of america by getting into what i call good trouble, necessary trouble, building and participating in the democratic process are key. Democracy is not a state. It is not an act. Each
Team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it was thirst first time attending digital event. Teachers with a wide variety of other roles, including para professionals, substitutes, coun
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