Good afternoon and welcome to the august 25, 2020 regular meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] mr. President , all members are present. Please place your right hand over your heart join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. Behalf of the board, i like to acknowledge the staff of sfgov tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Colleagues, i like to take a few meetings to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The 19th amendment which guarantees and protect womens constitutional right to vote was ratified on august 18, 1920. Hundredth anniversary of this historic milestone is to reflect on incredible efforts to secure womens Voting Rights. It is a reminder of the unfinished work ahead of us to fulfill the promise of our democracy. For decades after the ratification of the 19th amendment, many women of color were preven
Item number one is roll call. President brandon. Vice president adams. Commissioner gilman. Present. Commissioner woo ho. Here. Vice president adams. Madam president , you have a quorum. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with Liberty Justice for all. Item number 3, approval of the minutes of july 14th, 2020 Port Commission meeting. I so move. Second. President brandon. Aye. Vice president adams. Commissioner gilman. Yes. Commissioner woo ho. Aye. President brandon the minutes have been approved. Clerk announcements for item number 4. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to use the touch tone phones to register their desire for Public Comment. Oug
Put have a quorum. Thank you e this special meeting possible today. I would like to recognize and extend our deepest thanks to the clerk and her staff especially for making this special meeting possible today. During this one week legislative resource. Thank you for your tireless work over the last few months. Youve overcome incredible challenges to ensure our meetings and Department Remain open and accessible to the public while keeping everyone safe during this time. We cant thank you enough. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes. During the covid 19 pandemic, the members of the board participated remotely to the same extend as if they were in their legislative chamber. Corona virus has made the need for Public Access more acute. We will receive your written correspondence and make it a part of the public file. If you are sending written correspondence that would belets see here. San francisco board of supervisors. If you are utilizing the computer to watch the meeting live
Put have a quorum. Thank you e this special meeting possible today. I would like to recognize and extend our deepest thanks to the clerk and her staff especially for making this special meeting possible today. During this one week legislative resource. Thank you for your tireless work over the last few months. Youve overcome incredible challenges to ensure our meetings and Department Remain open and accessible to the public while keeping everyone safe during this time. We cant thank you enough. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes. During the covid 19 pandemic, the members of the board participated remotely to the same extend as if they were in their legislative chamber. Corona virus has made the need for Public Access more acute. We will receive your written correspondence and make it a part of the public file. If you are sending written correspondence that would belets see here. San francisco board of supervisors. If you are utilizing the computer to watch the meeting live
Use a new way to prevent to build do you taste future networks so to be clear from the end of this year Telecoms Operators must not buy any 5 to equipment from hallway and once the Telecom Security bill is passed it legal for them to do so. Now this is a major change from what we saw back in just january when the u. K. Said that it was going to work with wall way on a more restricted basis where the tech giant was able to have access to up to 35 percent of the network theres been a lot of back and forth with many countries but especially with the u. K. Like you said with this reversing of the decision why now what changed while theyre good ally the u. S. Has been pushing for all of its allies to also be on the wall way for more than a year now and the u. S. Has gone as far as to say that it would cut off intelligence sharing with those allies. Based on National Security concerns now when it comes to the u. K. That would be a really big deal considering the fact that both countries are