State wide sta stay at home ordr and declarations of directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same ex at the present time if theyre present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. On channel 26 and sftvgov. Org. Each speaker will allowed two minutes to specific. And call the none on the screen. 408 4189388. The meeting i. D. Is 146 9957258. Again, thats 146 9957294and you will hear the meeting discussion and you will be muted in is lening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email myself, the land use and transportation clerk, at erica. Major at sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment ve email it will be supervised to the supervisors included as part of the official file. Finally,
Were going to hear updates from the Controllers Office, Public Integrity assessment process and from the City Attorneys investigations and reports. On monday, the office of the controller released their first Public Integrity review report, focused on contracting procedures that the department of public works, in that report and its findings are the focus of this hearing. There are a myriad, concurrent investigations connected to the scandal. Both locally and federally. Our focus today is not on criminal charge or the fbis work specifically. Our focus here is less on individual bad actors and more on the systems and structures that enabled and empowered them to commit bad acts. And failed to provide oversight, accountability and transparency. And today were looking at public works. How the behavior in the complaints and the structures that allowed them to allowed for them to demonstrate the need for structural reform to preempt and prevent the potential for criminal and unethical actio
[chanting] any nation that ignores half of its people is in a moral and economic crisis. We will do more there will be a movement. To bring people together save the heart and soul of this democracy and this world. [crowd chanting] almost 87 years ago, my father, reverend dr. Martin luther king, jr. , reminded america of the fierce urgency of now. But now is not the time to engage in the luxury of cooling off. It takes the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. But now is the time to make real the promises of this democracy. He was working with poor people of every race, from every corner of this nation, to build a Poor Peoples Campaign when he was assassinated in memphis, tennessee, five years later. Today, as his daughter, i am honored to add my voice to the Poor Peoples Campaign, a National Call for moral revival, and stand with the 140 million poor people and low wealth people urging america to address with the fierce urgency of now the big issues of poverty and race. Please join us in t
Staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and city charter, the chambers room in city hall is closed. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 4084189388. Again. Thats 4084189388. The i. D. Is 1462655364, then press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but youll be muted and in listening mode only. When your item comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practice is to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may contact us in the following ways. Email me at victor. Young sf. Gov. Finally, items on todays agenda will be acted upon on the bo
Calling for the Oakland Unified School district to redirect money spent on police into social services for students. Now its called the george floyd resolution to eliminate the Oakland School Police Department background on some of the statistics the board cited in the resolution from the 2015 2016 school year to the 2019 2020 school year black students have accounted for 73 of arrest and city schools, but just 26 of enrollment. Also in 5 years from 2013 2014 to 2018 2019. The district spent million on its armed police force. Now lets hear from the organizers from the black organizing project along with the Oakland Unified School District Police chief. This is very historic for our members and for the people plan and we are really hoping that we can set a or what remove Police Free Schools looks like throughout the country calls are still going to be answered is high priority, although previous still going to be big and those out and if somebody from a school picks up the phone and cal