Good Morning Welcome to the Rules Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, Monday July 26, 2021 im it chair of the committee Aaron Peskin joined by Vice Chair Raphael mandelman. Our clerk is victor young. Do you have any announcements . Clerk i do. For our other guest, if you dont mind, if youre not if you can turn off your camera until we call on you to speak, it would be appreciated. Due to covid19 emergency to protect board member, city employees and the public, board of supervisors legislative Chamber And Committee room are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members who attend the committee through Video Conference will may participate in the meeting as if they were present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Comments are opportunities to speak during public Comment Period are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Meeting i. D. Is 146 989 7413 and then Pound And Pound again. When connected, y
The getting an a grade there and well check back that momentarily. Lets go to calls. Republican line and its gordon, kansas city. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for taking my call. You bet. Caller im not going to give him a grade because hes not running things. President obama is running things and he gets an f and i will get a vaccination as soon as Joe Biden does an offthecuff news conference. Thank you. To baltimore, curtis, independent line. How would you grade the president so far . Caller good morning, and thank you for taking my call. I am going to give the president a cplus. I think that hes doing an outstanding job. I think that he can do more with executive orders. Thank you. Okay. Thats curtis in baltimore. South winder, connecticut, democrat line. Anna, six months into the Biden Presidency and what do you think . Caller good morning. Thank you very much for taking my call. You bet. Caller im going to give the president and aplusplusplus, not only looking at the economy,
Director bringman is not expected at Todays Meeting. Item 3, announcement of sound producing devices during the meeting. Theres no announcement. Item number 4, approval of minutes for the may 4th regular meeting. For members of the public who wish to make public comment, the Phone Number is 8888086929. Meeting i. D. Is 9961164. Chair borden are there any additions to the minute . Seeing none. Are there any callers on the line. Were on item 4 approval of the may 4, 2021 regular meeting. Caller good afternoon david my only suggested Change Top of page 4 on my public comment recognized recent organizational change on Market Street. I think it would be more accurate to say recognize the change from the sustainable streets to the Streets Division Name and acknowledged trained testing in the Market Street subway. I did not make any comment about Train Testing on Market Street. It was specifically about the Market Street subway. Chair borden thank you mr. Pilpel. Are there any additional comm
Roll, Madam Clerk . [roll call] clerk chair, we have quorum. Im now make an announcement about public comment. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda by calling 4156550001, i. D. 1876602242, and then Pound And Pound again. Once you join, youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. To make public comment on an item, dial 3. Do not press 3 or youll be removed from the queue. The live operator will Advice Youll are allowed two minutes to speak. Calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of any radios or televisions around you. That concludes my announcements. Chairman thank you, Madam Clerk. Please call our next item. Clerk item 2, chairs report. This is an information item. Chairman i do have a report, colleagues. This month we are welcoming back Transit Service on several lines locally and across the service on several lines last weekend, on may 15th, we reopened t
City hall. Light foot said she would only grant interviews to black or brown journalists in the windy city dropping a Blackout On White Journalists who visit the mayors office. Light foot said she wanted to be, quote, intentional about Prioritizing Media Requests from reporters of color over white journalists who according to Light Foot overwhelmingly make up the majority of the City Hall press corps. She doubled down on those comments yesterday. If i, as a black woman mayor, the first ever, dont challenge us, the collective us, to do better, to really make sure that in every institution it reflects the diversity and nuances and texture of our city, then shame on me. Will but as controversy swirled around Light Foots racist impersonation of Bull Conner D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser rode in to her defense. That we need to see more Beat Reporters that look like the cities that they are covering. And thats been a discussion i have had with editors around this city and we want to continue to u