Can we have the next caller. Caller good evening, supervisors. Todd snyder for district 5. I thank you for amending this measure next week and supporting it thus far. I ask that you continue to support it today. And i want to point out that an arbitrary number of Sworn Police Officers provides no flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of our city. And this came from a Consent Decree entered into in 1979. And lifted in 1998. It has no relevance to the city today. So i urge you to continue to support this measure and to put it before the voters on the ballot in november. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller i already spoke once and i have been unmuted. Clerk i believe this person has already spoken before per their comment. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller yes, im a native san franciscan, and im in my 60s. I want to express that changing the charter to minimal staffing is a deadly Public Policy decision on your part. No doubt that crimina
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Good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee for the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, july 13th, 2020. My name is aaron peskin, im the chair of the committee joined by vicechair and safai and member dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major, ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislation and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taking to the state wide stay at home order and all local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Committee members will attend the meetings through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and they are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be
U. K. Alone sports stadiums are turned into hospitals. And a cease fire comes into effect in yemen with the say it tax havent stopped. We begin this put it in there with live pictures from here in the u. K. Where people are coming out of their homes to clap for the countrys Health Service workers during the pandemic lets have a little listening. So this is become an event has happened over the last 3 weeks on a thursday evening people are paying tribute to all the workers in the n. H. S. Looking after kurt of ours patients and you saw there Dominic Robert who was standing in for the Prime Minister the moment. Now the number of worldwide grown in virus deaths is edging closer to the 100000 mark as lockdowns continue to threaten the Global Economy there are signs that any recovery in the u. S. Economy the Worlds Largest is going to be slow as Consumer Confidence collapses and unemployment skyrockets in europe leaders appear to be getting closer to agreeing a half trillion dollar economic
Downward but thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an Unemployment Rate of 12 to 13 percent thats a level not seen since the Great Depression forecasters are saying they expect that to go up to at least 15 percent and 11 said that this is really essentially the Great Depression 2 here in the United States one sign of that is the trouble of the u. S. Airline industries the president did address that in that briefing today he said details will come out over the weekend over the u. S. Aid package for those airlines he said the Airline Industry has hit very hard as everyone knows and we are going to be in a position to do a lot to help them but of course no details on that until the weekend so were looking forward to see what the president has to say on that british Prime Minister baraks johnson is out of intensive care after impr