And the public, city hall is closed. This precaution is being taken pursuant to the local, state orders. Commission meetings will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the same extent as they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 4156550001. Again, its 4156550001, meeting id 146 7977410. Then press pound and pound again. Then you will hear the meeting discussions which will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email myself, alisa. Somera sfgov. Com. Madam chair, that
On the agenda today, resolution on the peaceful transfer of power after the president ial election, live house coverage at cspan. The speaker pro tempore the ouse will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 29, 2020. I hereby appoint Emanuel Cleaver 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. Haplain conroy let us pray. Lord, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As the stresses of the pandemic and as economic and educational effects stubbornly continue, we ask you once again to send your spirit of peace and healing upon our nation. Bless those who labor to bring healing and teaching during these difficult times. Comfort all who are ill with coronavirus and those who mourn the loss of loved ones because of it. As the members
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
Thank you. Its my pleasure to be here, and i just want you to know that ill be here to support you in each and every neighborhood, in each of the districts, in each of the schools. So while im here, doing everything i can do to make the city better. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much, aleric. It will be a great pleasure, working with you in our streets and our communities. So now, in celebration of our communities, we want to welcome to the stage our come back neighborhood and Community Challenge grant winners. The come back neighborhood award is given to the neighborhood that has really turn things around for its residence through collective problem solving and leadership, and this years winner is bayview hillcandlestick point. The Bayview Neighborhood Association has their negotiations with lennar and five point have led to cleaner air and reduced Traffic Congestion in the neighborhood. And joining us today is their board of directors. All right. Fantastic. I wanted to ask you j
Apple were virtually on capitol hill for hearing on big tech and at the trust. Thats our discussion this week on the communicators. Joining us is cerebellar who is with the American Economic liberties project. Shes the executive director, and former congresswoman Barbara Comstock two is now a Senior Advisor at Baker Donelson. Sarah miller, the question i always ask quite a bit at the hearing was his big tech too big . What is your answer to that . Guest i think the obvious answer to that is absolutely. The members of the subcommittee, both democrats and republicans really focused in on the power of these corporations over the way that we communicate and the way that we engage in commerce. That was the dominant theme of this hearing, and he also got into the guts of how these businesses work, how they abuse their dominance, i think gauge and predatory behavior and just how they are hurting other businesses, small, medium sized businesses and everyday families. Families. It was really qu