Clerk okay, mr. President , you do have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee welcome, supervisor safai. Lets see. Where are we . On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. President yee go ahead. Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during covid19, members of the board of supervisors participate in the same extent as if they were in the chambers. The board of supervisors believe that all communities with or without the internet have the following available options to participate in this meeting. We will receive your correspondence and make it part of the legislative file. Address the mail to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, room 244, Sa
Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
There was an endeavor to get to the city yesterday but we were landlocked yesterday, drove into the city under the trees. It was a little scarey we are back and it is nice to be here it feels like home good to have you back, andrew this is the situation that we probably havent given focus it deserves still millions without power 1. 4 million in new jersey without power. I know connecticut was hit worse. That storm even though a tropical storm, not a hurricane, stronger than anticipated. The wind event and damage significant. I appreciate it still trying to dig out from that today a lot of people that will be without power for days starting with the markets this morning. The nasdaq on another record six straight games it closed just below 11,000. Just north of 10,998 youll see this morning, us equity futures are not pushing above the 11,000 mark just yet six days in a row weve seen gains. This morning, indicated down by 20 points. The fourth day of gains for both the s p 500 and the dow
For eligible expenditures at any time with a twothirds majority. Again, these would be the tax measures, should the voters pass the measure, in november. And up to the first 40 million collected of the tax shall be offset shall be used to offset the member operating contributions provided by samtrans, uni and replace the covid related costs if relief funds are made available before the effective date, january 1 of the if a governance solution is found, the special escrow account would be closed and funds would be transferred to the joint powers board regular use the regular account and administration. If no government solution is found by september 30th, the first date that is mentioned in the special provisions of 2021, then another 40 million would be made available. Again, for operations. And to ensure that there would be no disruption to service for riders. E, if no governance solution is found, all parties would then commit to working with the state delegates from all three counti
And bridging the gap of trust, particularly with communities of color across our nation . Sen. Scott i think Congress Plays a role in that, even a significant role, but the most important is the one on the local level, the mayors and county chairwoman, those folks have the most direct path towards Police Reform, not those of us in congress. I have shared this many times. I have been stopped by officers years. S in the last 20 seven times in one year as an elected official and all of my 18 stops were either by city, county, or state Law Enforcement, never by federal Law Enforcement officers. Literally while we know the president ial election is important this year, another very important one. The truth is your election for your mayor, a lot of citizens dont participate in, election every city council members, those are the folks directly in positions of power to determine the local Law Enforcement you have. When we dont vote in those elections, we are actually taking a step back from th