Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart and join with me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, who record each of our meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during this covid19 emergency, members of the board of supervisors will participate to the same extent as if they were present in their legislative chamber. The board recognizes the pandemic has made the need for communication more acute and that those communities, with and without the internet, have the opportunity to participate, written and unwritten, in this meeting. We will accept your testimony via mail or Public Comment. Youre welcome to send us an email at bos sfgov. Org. If using your computer, you can livestream the meeting by going to www. Sfg
President follansbee this is House Services Board Meeting for the Public Awareness follansbee was connected and is having technical issues and call the meeting to order. We will await his arrival. Madam secretary, please call roll. [roll call] Vice President canning, you have a quorum. Vice president canning pleas e call the next item on the agenda. My apologies, given the fact that we are virtual, if you would please review the details for the publics awareness for participating in our virtual meeting. Due to covid19 Health Emergency and to protect our Board Members City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Community Room are closed. However members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken prestudent to the local state and federal orders. Community members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting. We have a few courtesy reminders. You can see on the screen now. All Public Commen
San francisco has shareholdeou much of the housing load and are already at 140 of our market rate housing goal in our current cycle, which goes until 2022. We do not need to increase our market Rate Housing Development goal, especially now as we see an exodus of hilowincome works out of San Francisco. The Affordable Housing needs are great, as we all know. San francisco has roughly 49,000 extremely rent burdened households in 2015, the overwhelming majority of housing facing cost burden, are very lowincome and extremely lowincome households, and a majority of lower income households are house burdened. During the covid19 pandemic, the Housing Needs of low to moderate Income Housing workers have become increasingly evident. So this urges abag and rnha to focus on current Housing Needs in San Francisco [inaudible]. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, mr. President , i have a number of items that i would like to presen
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 31, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Dianne Degette to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving us another day. We turn to you, much as the psalmist did of old. Though we walk in the midst of dangers, you guard our lives with when our enemies rage. You stretch out your hand, your right hand saves us. And again we are surrounded by enemies who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Show your greatness in the sky, o god, and your glory over all the earth. And yet again look, your enemies are in an uproar and those who hate you have raised their head against your people. They devise deceptive schemes and lot toget
You are limited to three minutes unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. Speakers are requested to state their name. Sfgovtv please show the office of Small Business slide. Hello. Today we start with reminder the Small Business commission is the official publicly forum to voice your concerns about policies affecting the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. The office of Small Business is the best place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco during the local emergency. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, particularly at this time, find us online or via telephone. Our services are free of charge. Before item one i want to thank Media Services and sfgovtv for the live stream and a specials for monitoring the line. Please call item 1. Call to order and roll call. Commissioner adams. Here. Commissioner dooley. Here. Commissioner hule. Here. Commissioner laguna. Here commissioner zouzounis is absent. Yoyou have a