[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
Enter this world awake for justice. Again you can find all this on our website at schaumburg. Org. If you are watching from the festival website you can scroll to the bottom of this particular page in shop the featured book. You can shop the rest of the festival from the bookish things my schaumburg shop. You can navigate or you can check out the full schedule of events. And just to let you know in the screen that is in front of your coffee look up in front of you if youre not seeing the chats, the little sort of comments if you where, talking bubble should the expansion chat for you. An ill be joined by alexander who is a senior staff writer it columbia journalism review. Previously she was a reporter at the Village Voice and covered education for the project were to partnership between columbia university, columbia journeying ten Journalism School part shall be in conversation with wando small following will introduce one that there will be a reading. And then following the conversat
Environmental review and i understand those items are going to be continued to november 10th. Public comment will be taken on the continuance. If you are interested in providing general Public Comment, item 29, and you can talk about the minutes from september 29th, you are able to talk about the subject matter, jurisdiction items, that are on todays board agenda and items 3033, those are the items without reference to committee calender. The president has asked i deliver a message that during general Public Comment, each member of the public will have one minute to make that Public Comment. So, all other items, 117, as well as 2627, are not agenda content eligible for your testimony today. We have interpreters at todays meeting. We have two joining us, ago us in lie anagnes liand arturo. [voice of interpreter] [voice of interpreter] [voice of interpreter] clerk thank you to the interpreters for being here. Were working hard not to leave anyone out of these proceedings so if you are ex
Have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on and all that it entails. And unfortunately in the world of politics, and in the world of public service, it also comes
But most importantly please find a link to pauls book, you can click on the link and purchase please go ahead and purchase pauls book and help support the discourse that hes hes lending to all of us in the next few months and beyond. I just want to say that any night of the week we would be thrilled to have one of our guests but together is a hallelujah movement. I dont know if youre counting or shows the days, minutes and seconds until the election but if youre not counting there are 88 days remaining. Personally i wish that the election was today but we have to wait 88 days and as i said given whats riding on the outcome, trust honor and pleasure to introduce my old colleague and friend paul begala for tonights events. He will tell us how democrats can win in november, that would, of course, if we are successful, leave one of the two plagues ravaging our nation. [laughter] paul will be explaining new book. When you read it, you will encounter some of Electoral College and trump tramp