President walton good afternoon. Welcome to the march 23, 2021 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum. President walton thank you. The San Francisco board of supervisors is acknowledges that we are on the unseated land of the Ramaytush Ohlone. They have not forgotten their responsibilities of caretakers for this place. Whereas for all people who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders of the Ramaytush Ohlone community. Colleagues place your right hand over your heart and join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board of supervisors i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov tv. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President before i begin, i will ask lornea please tur
Workforce and after a year of shutting down opening up and adapting to a new way of work thousands across the state will soon have access to resources for recovery state lawmakers and the governor agreed to provide more than 2 billion dollars in grants for Small Businesses affected by the pandemic providing up to 25,000 per business money that will not need to be paid back this is fantastic news. Could have been done any faster than we did it senator Andreas Borgeas originally introduced the idea to provide this amount of money is a huge boon for the california economy in the Small Business community. The Grant Program is similar to one the governor rolled out late last year but with just a fraction of the funds businesses got their money within weeks purple Services Hair salons and nail salons and Childcare Services and. Many other kinds of businesses and so weve gotten great feedback from people whove received those grants that theyre going to use that money to keep employees to pay
Has called for calm and both sides to come together to reduce tension. Catherine so is following developments from neighboring kenya. About this incident at the airport we have spoken to people in or around the airport who have told us that operations in the airport have been suspended and it follows this dramatic since weve been seeing that played out this morning we saw an exchange of gunfire intense an exchange of gunfire between Government Forces and propositioned forces there was also a huge explosion i have a little more detail on that we have spoken to some opposition leaders who are saying that it was a rocket propelled grenade that was launched and inside the airport and a building was destroyed weve also spoken to the government spokesman who has confirmed there was an incident but wouldnt give us more details so this all happened at the start of this protest march that was being led by several opposition president ial candidates including a former Prime Minister have some ki
Civilians and western c. A. R. Who based on their role aegis national or ethnic affiliation were perceived as collectively responsible for complicit with and supportive of the telic you will hear this referred to as the criminal policy or common purpose in our presentation memos military has denied carrying out a coup in has pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces says they had no choice but to seize power protest against a military takeover and now in the 11th a defeat department is monitoring events in men mufon hong kong and she has more on the latest statements from the military. We didnt really hear anti anything new most of what they said was predictable the military spokesman justified the takeover from it said the civilian government saying that the elections were fraudulent they also accused the protesters of escalating violence against the police but gave no Evidence Office and they also had but they did not mention the Security Forces crack