Workout a deal for our tenants that they can stay in japan town. We cannot lose these tenants as they account t account to 90 in town. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Thank you, very much. Its a hard job. I cant do what you guys do. I would fall asleep. Sir, can you speak into your phone. We can barely hear you. Ok. Well, i guess he hung up. Operations is there another call, please. Caller can you hear me . Hi, my name is joyce and im a resident of district 3 in speaking in support of the ordinances introduced by supervisors peskin and preston. To stoppie convictions and extend the moratorium on rents for Small Businesses effected by covid. In the 1970 i was involved in commuting organizing to stop the further destruction of the japan townchinatown malil a town communities created by redevelopment. Fast forward to 2020 and the effects of the covid19 pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being
Streamlining permitting a, reducing fees, and getting rid of red tape. I believe we must overcome the rigid policies that have delayed meaningful progress in our district for decades. Now is the time we can either choose to make a change with new leadership or continue down the path that weve taken the last 20 years. Learn more at votesimonsen. Com, and id be honored to have your vote this november. [ ] good morning, and welcome to the september 29, 2020 meeting of the Vision Zero Committee. I am commissioner norman yee and i will be chairing todays meeting. Im joined by vice chair commissioner stefani and commissioner peskin. The Committee Clerk is britney milton. And will you please call the role . Yes, commission peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Vice chair stefani present. Chair yee present. We have quorum. On behalf of the committee i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who records each of our meetings and makes the transcript available to the public online. Clerk,
Mr. Secretary, please call the roll. [laughter]. Thank you, madame chair. Prior to calling roll, i would like to note that julie chang is sitting in as director. With that i will now proceed to call roll. Directors, please respond when i call your name. Chang present. E. Forbes present. M. Hursh present. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Secretary directors, we have a quorum. Chair sesay and secretary, if i may just a point of clarification, this is a regular meeting, not a special meeting, just a point of clarification for the record. Chair sesay thank you, i appreciate that. Secretary thank you. Directors, the next item, item 3, is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the published number, 18552826330, and enter access code, 126 729 5295. Then pound and pound again and listen to the meeting. As they wait for Public Comment to be anno
Once again along the gulf coast. The story of this storm, this hurricane will be that of the flooding rainfall. Were talking about a catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding situation. As you mentioned from southern mississippi all the way over into southern alabama including the mobile area, also into the panhandle of florida where the conditions have been very serious out towards pensacola. Now the wind, intensity of the storm coming down, moves further inland this afternoon. It is slowly crawling inland, neil. Only five miles an hour. It means relentless rain will continue over the same hours for hours and hours, resulting in that flooding. If that flooding that were alerting people and businesses to across the southeastern United States as the storm continues to move off to the north and east, that risk for serious flooding is going expand into georgia and up towards the carolinas the next couple days. It is really important that people and businesses be prepared in those areas. T
Have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on and all that it entails. And unfortunately in the world of politics, and in the world of public service, it also comes