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Conference with rules Committee Vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. Our clerk today is victor young and id like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotedly as in the same extent as if they were physically comment. Physically present. We are streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Commentses or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984. Access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial o ....
Supervisor ronen and president yee is with us today. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for this meeting. Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect members, and the public, the board of supervisors and the chamber and the Committee Room are closed and so all members will be participating in the meeting remotely. indiscernible and the comments will be available for each item on this agenda. At sfgov. Sorry, sfgov. Tv org, and the number is across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And the comments to speak during the Comment Period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984 and, again, 888 8882045984, access code, 350018. And press pound and press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1, and then 0, to be added to the queue to speak. You will be lunc ....
Most people have access to a telephone. So all of our public meetings, including this one, theres a dialin number for people who cant get online and cant see our faces can still hear the text and can call in on their telephone. In fact were getting a significant number of people picking up their phone and calling in. All of those phone calls are transcribed for us and vick has been reading some of them. We want to make sure people have a real opportunity to participate and we have been reliant for some of our communitybased organizations, like so many can and the social equity organizations have been participating by phone as well and we have still early in the crisis did some inperson meetings with social distance. I have a question from youtube. Can you raise the tickets for safety violations and for r. P. P. S . Yes. So this is another complicated question. Again, if you go to sfmta. Com budget, you will see all of the details proposals for how were making adjustments to our citatio ....
Like a numbers game. What happens when a Novel Coronavirus threatens to shut down schools. It places pressure on those who are barely making ends meet. If the school shut down and parents are working minimum wage jobs have to stay home with the kids, there is a good chance they will not make the rent payments. Thats what ray branson chief impact officer with destination home is worried about the nonprofit across the country are increasingly concerned about families that are already in the midst of a housing crisis, now may soon be impacted by a health crisis. I absolutely think that Something Like this which keeps people from being able to go to work, which keeps people in the big economy from being able to do their jobs every day, i think various a if things get out of hand the worse it will see more people o homelessness. The homeless are another focus for nonprofits now ....
First up is general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, except the agenda items. With respect to agenda items, that will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. I had just the one speaker card. Its not me. [ laughter ] no, i know its not you. [ laughter ] its carvallo. Real quick, im from the San Francisco heritage. I just want to mention that the legacy business backlog right now is five months when a business applies to be a legacy business and theyre overwhelmed over there and i think rick could use some help. So any influence you might have to move resources to the office of Small Business to help with the legacy business program, you all know how popular it is, but we tr ....