The equities. New tonight, Jana Katsuyama here with the decision. Reporter frank f city county said tonight that they realize the flag is just a symbol. But they are planning to take a very deep look at all city policies to try and improve racial equity. Reporter the u. S. , california and city of piedmont flags grace the corner oversea and highland avenues in the heart of piedmont. But soon, the black lives matter flag will replace that in the coming months. The five counsel members heard Public Comment from more than a half dozen measures. I want to be proud to to tel kids that we lib in a city thats on the right side. Reporter along with fliers a black lives matter matter flag for one month theres also a policy for racial discrimination. The history of piedmonts first black residence, sydney and thelma and their two children who were driven from their home in 1984. Reporter theyre calling for ordinances for any stereotype. Im always cognizant of the lack of diversities in the area.
Route and that will polarize and poison the political atmosphere even more than it is now which is bad enough. To watch the rest of this program and find other episodes, visit our website , booktv. Org and click on the after words near the top of the page. Assistant director of an organization dedicated to unleashing the impact of libraries. We dont have a power point today because we divide this as a guided conversation. I want to be sure we make the most of our time today. I will have each of our experts introduce themselves and i am looking forward to what our panelists have to say and i hope you are too. Be sure to visit the resources page and we will put that link in the chat for everyone. In true librarian fashion we will have everybody introduce themselves in alphabetical order by first name. Go ahead and get us started. That is a curveball, first name. Im jennifer pearson, director of the Marshall County Memorial Library have between there and alabama. Ive been here about 5 and
Kelly, sue serio. You know everybodys all singing along. In the shower. With the hair brush. We all sound good in the shower, dont me . Great. At least in my head i do. Well, could you walk outside and get a shower, yes, singing in the rain. Exactly. Tell my teenagers that. Just take your bar of soap outside. Look at wilmington, delaware, we got droplet on zero our camera there. You can tell where we are. We are ways away from daylight, but, we have got some more rain to go before we get to sunrise. And not too much sunshine. Six out of ten today. There is bus stop buddy, eagles game tonight, rain right now. The umbrella is open. Were off to damp start with temperatures in the cool 50s and 60s, and you can see the rain throughout the region on ultimate doppler radar. We will look a little more in depth in a moment. And it is wet in our neighborhood. 61 degrees right now. It is also windy, with 15mile per hour breezes, out of the northeast, cloudy wednesday, took us to 79 degrees, and w
Cosponsors, supervisors kim,fewer ronen, cohen, and safai. We really need to help our allies at the staff level to help us pass this legislation. I really hope we have a hearing on this and that everyone can be convinced that this is what we need in San Francisco. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor breed. And supervisor cohen, you indicated that you were submitting, correct . Yes, that is correct. Supervisor farrell. Last week we had a few Affordable Housing deals coming through our ordinance and we all agreed there were too many questions for the developers to afford. I think supervisor kim for getting this together. In addition the Planning Department staff had paired our supervisors. Our staff in this department provided a Financial Analysis of this but maybe im just used to the budget and finance committee but there is no process to verify these financial deals done for ordinance. I commend our staff to do their best to evaluate the ordinance for fiscal impact but i cant consciou
Provoked you to support this . There were some that refused to testify and during this investigation this board issued were the last board issued i believe this first subpoena i believe in 24 425 years and i think that mme. City clerk knows the exact amount of years with that but i think that we need to get to the bottom of this. This is not to be used lightly but i think particularly in a case of manifested Public Safety they need to understand the gravityand they need to understand that telling the truth and the whole truth is very, very important and they need to understand this Public Safety issue and get to the bottom of it. This is not something that i expect the committee or the full board to use this with any regularity but there is another individual coming before the committee another peer that i feel will be very helpful to our investigations to have that individual testify personally to an oath and i think it is an important tool to use in our tool chest for the board for m