[please stand by] [please stand by] good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, october 19th, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor peskin joined by Committee Member dean preston and soontobe joined by vicechair supervisor safai. Our court is miss erika major. Do you have any announcements, ms. Major . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, and to protect Board Members the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through the conference and participate in the meeting to the same ex at the present time as if theres physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgot. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak.
Made up of folks that have fulltime day jobs. You know, theres limited staff availability to the committee. So maybe just standardize that external audit process as opposed to having it to be something that the committee itself needs to organize every few years. Chair ronen that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that. Maybe you can help to make that happen in the short time that you have left. That would be wonderful. Let us finish w know if you cann any way. And i wanted to make sure that our colleagues didnt have any questions or comments . Nope. Then if you have no more remarks we can open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes, the members of the public who want to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1469652968. And then press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, press star, 3, to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates that you have been u
Of a short period of time. I want to say right now we have our second hearing next tuesday on the Affordable Care act. Thank you everyone for joining us and thank you to the staff. We are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with regulations for Remote Committee proceedings and as resolution 965. This is my first hearing is chairman of the subcommittee on oversight and my First Official virtual oversight subcommittee hearing in the ways and Means Committee. Before return to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedures while we navigate this platform. First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background music and noise. Members are responsible for muting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for 5 minutes. Second, the members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times so even if you leave for a second or few moments, leave your camera on. Third, we will dispense with the practice of
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Weve got a great response out of our short period of time and i want to say right now we have our second hearing next tuesday on the Affordable Care act. Thank you everyone for joining us and thank you to the staff. We are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with regulations for Remote Committee proceedings and as resolution 965 and this is my first hearing is chairman of the subcommittee on oversight and my First Official virtual oversight subcommittee hearing in the ways and Means Committee. Before return to todays important topic i want to remind members of the decisions and procedures while we navigate this platform. First, consistent with regulations we keep microphones needed to limit background noise and members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for five minutes. Second, the members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times so even if you are for a second or few moments leave your camera on. Third, we wil