Clerk thank you, very much. All right. We have quorum. Thank you. Greetings and welcome for joining todays board of education meeting. Knowing that we all know this, i would like to say these are stressful and strange times, times we never thought would be visited upon us. I thought it was strange enough trying to wait out and resist the person currently occupying the white house. But now things have gotten more bizarre with the same person trying to bully students, families and teachers and other staff back into school buildings. Thats what were dealing with. Thats what its come to. Today we will be absorbing our fall learning plan. I know many will find aspects they will object to but this will find solace in the approach. This is the time for us to pull together collectively to row lie upon one another to make this year as good and meaningful as it can be for our childrens sake. And to continue to find, within ourselves, a sense of grace and compassion and flexibility as we move for
good morning and welcome to the San Francisco transportation meet ing for today july 28, 202. Madam, clerk. Please call the roll. roll call we have a quorum. thank you. Before i ask the clerk to make a motion. I ask for a motion to excuse the absence. Can i get a second. second. accelerate we do that without objection . i believe so. No vote required. without objection. Commissioner is excused. Do you have any announcements . yes, i do, chair. Public comment maybe available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987. Follow the system prompts. When you wish to speak on an item dial one zero to be added to the queue to speak. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Calls will be taken in the order which received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. thank you madam, clerk. This month, i want to start by congratulating director of our Capital Projects. His project and partners at th
The minutes should so reflect, thank you. Great. Should we include that amendment on the minutes . Directors, are there any additional callers at this time . Operator you have two questions remaining. So for members of the public on the line, this is an opportunity to comment on approval of the minutes from the june 16th regular meeting. If you would like to comment on the minutes, please state your name and we will start your two minutes. Hello . Operator sorry, hit the wrong button. Operator you have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment and directors, do i have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the 16th. Motion to approve. Second. All in favour. Do we have to do role call . Yes, madam chair. role call . The minutes are approved in a 40 vote. Item 5. As some of may know, we lost a member, art curtis, who passed away with a long battle with brain cancer. In his early union, he fulfilled his dream with sfmta driving trolley buses and conductor on th
Policing, its never been an Institution Designed to keep us safe and used as a tool for those in power to keep the marginalized people from rising up, going all the way back to the slave patrol. Sharing im the policing unfairly targets marginalized communities, injects massive amounts of people into the prison system. We heard about reform from chief scott today, but all those measures ignore the fact that reform is not effective. We need to defund and sfpd and invest in our communities immediately. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. It cannot force you to create money in a budget. Cut the budget and cut the numbers of police and Fund Services that help humans. End the violence against black and brown people that is built into policing. I disagree with supervisors assessment of what his constituents want. We want services, not Police Officers. I have heard on this call that over time sfpd at the airport, the focus of sfpd and the mandated reforms are not well understood by s
Decide not to do that, it is very important for people to meet outside, wear face coverings, social distance, hygiene measures that i talked about. Be thoughtful how we engage outside of our immediate house old with people highest risk of dying from the disease, people older with chronic conditions. Given what we are seeing in San Francisco and across the state we are having increasing cases. San francisco knows how to do this. We did it and i am grateful for everyones contributions. We did it in march, april, may. We can do it for the fourth of july. Thank you. Next questions from cathy novak with k cbs for dr. Colfax. How willin how many patientsn quentin are treated in San Francisco hospitals . 18 patients transferred from san quentin to San Francisco hospitals. Second question for dr. Colfax. Are San Francisco hospitals preparing to receive more patients from san quintin . Is that going to affect Hospital Capacity. Right now it is good for indicators. People can find it on data sf