[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
I am happy to be with my colleagues. I think it is an encouraging atmosphere, i noticed it yesterday on the floor, and again today. We did a lot of good work before the recess. Got plenty of work still to do. I am delighted to kick it off with this hearing. In march our Committee Held its first oversight hearing on the bipartisan infrastructure laws, Drinking Water and wastewater provisions. Today we will expand upon those after focusing on the laws on Drinking Water. Nearly two years after becoming law, bipartisan infrastructure law is helping to help make is helping to make clean water a reality for communities, schools and childcare facilities. As the benefits of this law continue to become a reality in morecambe committees across america, our committee is anxious to hear from stakeholders about how you believe this work is progressing. And if we can make any improvements. Mike rawlings heard me say my colleagues heard me say anything i can do we know we can do better. Investing in
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Eric, i spoke with a close friend of Robert Orlando and his boss at the part help time job, both remembering him as a kind and caring young man always with a smile on his face. Very carefree. He is gone too soon. The mourn began with an announcement. And a moment of silence for a senior who never made it to the first day of school. 17yearold Robert Orlando was killed last night when the car he was a passenger in ran off the drive in danville and crashed into a tree and through a against and died at the hospital. I went to the lake with him and a few Family Friends with his and. He was so funny and he lit up a room. He was so cool. Three was a bus boy and pizza maker at a pizza company. His manager, too upset to go on camera said he was the most reliable employees, a great kid, loved by everyone, always smiling. The survivors are seniors at San Ramon Valley high school. The driver and other passenger are being treated for broken ribs and a broken leg. The cause of the crash is under inv
And the list of passengers on board, we wont know for sure. At this point, the American Embassy in cairo has not been notified by egyptian authorities there were any americans on board the flight. This early information. I have to feel for the families, we know Little Information and we have to know, possibly on board that flight. Keeping in mind in egypt, this is a military government, so youre going to have all military resources put to trying to find this aircraft. Youre going to have the Egyptian Naval forces and im sure as well land forces searching for any sign of this aircraft. To the extent that its possible, if there are any other navys operating in the Mediterranean Sea that can assist in an emergency like this, that is certainly what comes to bear. Every possible country that has any resource in the area would respond. Listen, its one of those situations where you have very, very little to go on. What we can tell you is the airbus a320 is a workhorse of an aircraft. This is