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Ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spent 13 years with the San Francisco fire department, married, two young children, dad was a firefighter as well, and its such a terrible loss for our city, for our community, and we want to thank him and all of those who serve, who try to help us in the community at great expense to themselves. So i will ask to adjourn in his honor and in honor of all those who serve. We will be giving two minutes for Public Comment, and with that, ill ask you to call roll. We should give the number t ....
This. I dont want to embarrass myself on making specific comments on the details because im not as informed as most of the folks here. But, you know, given the benefits, i think that this is a great conversation and i really appreciate your time and attention to it. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. I am calling the members of the coalition. And im urging the supervisors to move forward with the b. L. A. Recommendations. And to establish a public bank. The b. L. A. Knows that san franciscans are in crisis. And the local institutions flood a public bank need a public bank that could be accountable to our community. And i ca can direct money to resources that are needed right now. Small businesses, people without jobs, and immigrants, and the health care. In a time of crisis we need action to address these local needs. A public bank is a good solution in that direction. In closing, i want to than ....
Pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being wiped out. As a japanese american im concerned about Small Businesses facing eviction in japan town. If these businesses fail, it opens the door to property being sold to developers. They may transform the property and change the charter of japan town, similar to what happened to the International Hotel property in malil a town where the hilton hotel now stands. Please support these ordinance to give Small Businesses a fighting chance to survive and preserve our communities of color. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Great timing. Thank you. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello caller . If you press star 3 and you have are unmuted start speaking lets see if thats you. Well go bax to the next person. Can you h ....
The San Francisco playgrounds hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for 27,000. In the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. Thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond, the Sunset Playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. Here we are. 60 years and 14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brandnew rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. The new rec center houses multipurpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing pingpong and arts can crafts. You can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it ....
I just hope the clerk next caller. I am a black woman that works for the department. I would like to thank the supervisors for bringing this issue and bringing awareness to the concerns and these issues. I am also in support of the black employee alliance. We need the tangibles and the demands listed specifically in the letter. We need a supervisor to focus on racist bias and racism [indiscernible] this person should focus on the departments where there are racially bad actor acto actors [indiscernible] terminations and medical releases. The Inspector General should or could also lead efforts on the following examples. One important one would be to abolish the d. H. R. , e. E. O. System [indiscernible]. Clerk could we have the next caller. My name is marco reed, an employee at the San Francisco m. C. A. I want to bring us back to some of the points around apprenticeships, p ....