Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
There are two callers. First speaker, please. So, again, commissioners, this pandemic, as you can see, very few people want to participate in any of these major projects. So we leave it to you, our representatives, to do Due Diligence based on third street, which is a mess, the central subway, we are waiting for the opening, the van ness bus rapid transit, the businesses that needed to be helped have gone. And we havent learned anything what happened on Market Street before. We always dont seem to learn something from the past projects and we dont seem to have a checklist. We just live it to become project managers, who are not really project managers, because they cant do a needs assessment. And then we love to have our fire chats, the Public Comment period, where we allow them a couple of minutes and you dont seem to be paying attention to us. Its going to come to bite you all in the back. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. Thank you, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank y
That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
This meeting will come to order. And welcome to the september 25th special meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk today is erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect the City Employees and the public, the elective chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken to the local state and orders and directives. The members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. However, Public Comment will be available on each item of the agenda. Cable channel 26, 78 or 99 as well as sfgovtv. Org are streaming the callin number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And comments are opportunities to speak during the comment public via phone by calling the number 1 415 6550001. Again, that n
Executive orders and the mayors proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. During the coronavirus disease emergency the Fire Commission regular meeting room at city hall is closed and meetings of the Fire Commission. You may watch this meeting live at www. Sfgovtv. Org. Participate during Public Comment by phone and please dial 415 6550001 and use access code 146 122 0408. Members of the public will have opportunities to participate during Public Comment. The public is asked to wait for the particular agenda item and before make a comment on that item. Comments will be addressed in the order they are received. When the moderate era nounses that the commission is taking Public Comment, members of the public can raise their hand by pressing star 3 and you will be queued. Callers will hear silence when waiting for your turn to speak. Operator will unmute you when prompted, callers will have three minutes to provide comment. Ensure you are in a quiet location, speak clearly