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[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may ad ....
[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may ad ....
Request but not require that you fill out a speaker card. Commissioner buell, how many minutes three. Clerk you will have three minutes to speak. If you dont have the opportunity to speak on item 4 because it is for only 15 minutes, you may speak on item 12. Its continued from item 4. When you address your comments to the commission, please note that neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment in order to allow equal time for all. The commission may ask questions of staff when Public Comment is closed. Last, if the firearm alarm goes off, you must exit the building in an ordinarily fashion. Please note that the elevators will return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you require an elevator, please make your way to the closest gathering area, which is in the mens rest room. Use the box. It will ring the fire departmen ....
Has picked up reports. This is work that came up from the community through the commission. We have the agency and the commission. So its in cecredibly important work. Also, ban the box started with the human rights commission, the equity advisory committee. Now thats also something thats traveled nationally and gets stronger and stronger every year in different places. One of the things that i am personally most proud of is that we instituted a pilot under mayor lee to deal with implicit bias. So we were able to it was an idea we had at the commission. I brought it to the commission. I wasnt the first person to think about this obviously, but we were able to get a Pilot Program going with the mayors support and the supporter support of the family. Kimberlypapinon, we were able to work with her to create a program and the mayor funded it. So that was an amazing thing. And i know now that the department of human rights is dism admin ....
Accessible and more equitiable. If you look just im a soccer fan, so im going to go off a little bit. If you look at frances success and their success on the field, it is focused on communities of color, and its something that the u. S. Does not do well. We are engaged in an effort to introduce the sport to communities that have not historically or traditionally had access to it, so your recreation and Parks Department has created its own soccer club, bayview united, and ill turn on the video. [video] and that concludes the general managers report. Thank you very much. Clerk is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on the general managers report . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed, and we are now on general Public Comment. This is up to 15 m ....