Let us know if there is anyone on the line for Public Comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. Staff is opening the line. You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, we will close Public Comment. Motion to approve . A second . Ill second. Great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. If youre watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. Members of the public who do wish to make Public Comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use as printed on the agenda and web page, is 18888086929. The access code is 9961164. Please make sure youre in a quiet location. You turn off tvs and radios and if youre Live Streaming the meeting, you reduce the sound. At the appropriate time, the chair will ask for the phone lines to be
Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members
This is a tale of two states. Northern california and Southern California. Here are the rankings. The top five counties with the highest number covid19 cases all in Southern California. Los angeles, riverside, san diego, orange county, san bernardino. Thats 71 of all of californias covid19 cases. Meanwhile the bay area counties make up just 11 . So how do you explain the divide . Its hard to say why. Some of this is luck but i think we have to assume it has mostly to do with behavioral differences. In orange county, the Public Health officer was criticized so badly for enforcing mandatory masks, she ended up quitting. In the bay area there happen been any major outcry against mandatory masks. I dont think were in any danger. We need to keep a close eye on it. If we have to, shut it down a bit. Here are a couple major differences. L. A. Countys is 10 million. There are some differences, too, when it comes to Outdoor Recreation culture. So cal beaches with the hotter temperatures made he
31,000 as compared with 110,000 for white fames. As many as 19 of black children in San Francisco live in poverty. Black and African American individuals comprise 35 of the citys unhoused population, despite making up only around 5 of the population as a whole. We have been pushing for reparation for black people here in San Francisco for decades and we have continue to see our organizations disrecorded and left out of receipt of vital resources and in these times of continued system d systemic discrimination of black people, we have to be strong with our solutions. In other words to provide a real opportunity for equity, we need to repurpose resources and give them to the black community to tlefl Playing Field and achieve successful outcomes. Thises a concrete, bold and immediate step toward true reparations for black people and im urging all of my colleagues to support this redistribution of resources from the San Francisco Police Department to the black community. Also today, im sub
Charter amendment be continued. Supervisor yee ok. So the question is, should it be continued and id like to get a motion to continue this item. So moved. Moved by supervisor walton and seconded by mandelman. Go ahead and call the roll to continue this item. Clerk to continue item 16 to june 23th, supervisor mar aye. Peskin. Aye. Preston. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee without objection it will continue to the meeting of tuesday, june 23th, 2020. Item 17 is a motion to appoint larry bush to the Ethics Commission term ending february 1th, 2023. Supervisor yee go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 17, supervisor mar aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Superv