the meeting will come to the order. i m joined by committee members supervisor walton and mandelman. i d like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. any announcements today? yes, madame chair, due to the health emergency, phone number of the board of supervisors and the committee room are closed, however, members will be participated in the call remotely. you can make public ct by calling 1-415-655-0001. 146 580 2686. again, i.d. number, 146 580 2686. then press pound twice. 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 can submit public comment in the following way. e-mail to myself. it will be forwarded to the supervisors. finally items acted upon today are to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on october 27 unless otherwise stated flmplt fluf resolution authorizing the department of ho
director brinkman: here. vice chair eaken: present. director heminger: present. director lai: present. madame chair, direct ors, you have a quorum. we re legally required to put this on the agenda. we re using sound producing devices. approval of the minutes of the september 1, 2020 regular meeting. directors, any amendments to the minutes before we open up for public comment? seeing none, moderator, can you let us know if there is anyone on the line for public comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. staff is opening the line. you have zero questions remaining. chair borden: with that, we will close public comment. motion to approve? a second? i ll second. great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. chair borden: aye. director brinkman: aye. vice chair eaken: aye. director heminger: aye. director lai: aye. sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. if you re watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment o
let us know if there is anyone on the line for public comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. staff is opening the line. you have zero questions remaining. chair borden: with that, we will close public comment. motion to approve? a second? i ll second. great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. chair borden: aye. director brinkman: aye. vice chair eaken: aye. director heminger: aye. director lai: aye. sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. if you re watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. members of the public who do wish to make public comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use as printed on the agenda and web page, is 1-888-808-6929. the access code is 9961164. please make sure you re in a quiet location. you turn off tvs and radios and if you re live streaming the meeting, you reduce the sound. at the appropriate time, t
chair and directors, yes, i do. so if you re ready, i ll begin with this. meeting of the citizens i m sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. chair borden: it s not the same as what you re seeing on tv. your audio is a little bit labored. i don t 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 h
to the hospital after receiving injuries battle the fire. our one firefighter who has injured is in stable condition and expected to be okay. reporter: by 12:30, crews had the upper happen on the fire, but not before it damaged six buildings along 14th street. a half dozen or more businesses have been impacted and some residents were displayered. brian bart felt from bartbelt sales said when the first heard about the fire this morning, he had in idea how bad it would be until he pay rived on scene. ?rtank. reporter: while he s thankful none of his employees were injured, the building where his family target started the business more than 70 years ago appears to be a complete loss. right now he says it s simply too early to say if insurance will cover it and allow them to move on person obviously the big-time damage, we ll cross that bridge when we get to it. san francisco fire said they have investigators on the scene trying to determine exactly what the cause of th