The meeting comes to order, the august 19th, rescheduled budget and appropriations meeting. Im sandra lee fewer and joined by the Committee Members, supervisors walton and mandelman and ronen and norman yee. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. And also, supervisor walton will be joining us a little later. Can we have a motion to excuse him for the first beginning part of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This is for the local and state and federal orders and declarations and orders. The meeting is through Video Conferenc
Store you can see this here but this is not the only business that was damaged overnight you can see here also several buildings were vandalized including cars along with the Alameda County courthouse being set on fire now according to Police Numerous fires were set dozens of windows are broken out in multiple businesses were vandalized nearly 600 people took to the streets to demand justice for blake. And Police Accountability along with fundamental change nationwide now bp also says protesters temporarily shut down traffic on the 5. 80 freeway along with a bar in downtown and to close their 19th street station as city Police Tweeted photos of numerous fires that were set in the downtown area now its really important to note that the protests started peacefully but things escalated as the night went on. Pd says no officers were injured in any of this we also reached out to them to see they have an update on any of the protesters as well any of their injuries. They say several arrests
Joining us is mitch kaplan the owner of books and books bookstores in the miami area. We last spoke with mr. Kaplan mh when the pandemic started. That was the day books and book shut down. Thats right. At that point we became a virtual bookshop. The only business we were doing was online and doing our events virtually as well. Give us an update five months later. It has been a roller coaster to be honest. We have had ups and downs we were able through the ppp loans to bring our staff back but unfortunately the stores were so shut down because of the pandemic here in florida. But toward the end we could open around the beginning of june or so i think it was july now that i think about it we began to open. We opened all but one. One we have closed permanently on miami beach. But we are looking forward to finding another space there as well. Whats it like to have customers back in the store . For us and has been fairly smooth. The customers have all been very respectful of wearing masks.
Of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This is for the local and state and federal orders and declarations and orders. The meeting is through Video Conferencing and participate as if physically present. Public comments are available on each item on this agenda and channel 26 and fo sfgovtv. Org e streaming the number across the korean. The opportunity to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 1 415 6550001. Again, 1 415 6550001. And meeting i. D. , 146 347 6022. Again, 146 347 6022. And then press pound twice. When connected yo
Who has done stiller work at the disinformation tell all, coolers title ever and before that she was scholar with institute on russia and ukraine and how to lose the information war, russia fake news and the future of congress is conflict is an amazing title and essential reading for everyone on this call and zoom and all your friends. We remember russias Successful Campaign to sow distrust and confusion ahead of the president ial election but in order to win the information as nina would say we need to understand what disinformation is. Ive heard around this topic before and what it is not. The information is use of false or misleading information with malign intent. Thats different from misinformation which can be harmful but lacks malign intent. It also has broader goals and propaganda which involves promotion of a nations view. Nona writes, unlike soviet propaganda which sought to promote specific communist centric world view, the kremlin today divides populations around the world