Like ours that witnessed the Police Killing of george floyd. The book is challenging and introspective. Its outraged and quiet and devastating. Early in the book ms. Rankin writes i was always aware that my value in our cultures eyes is determined by my skin color first and foremost. Claudia rankin is a poet, and essayist and playwright. She is a professor of poetry at yale, the new book is titled just us, an american conversation. And we find ms. Rankin at her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in person in front of a live audience. Im glad we could make this work. But i just have to say im really going to miss that, so welcome. Host thank you so much kerri for having me. Tell me how, in the before times, before the pandemic you imagined you would be traveling in talking about this book, in front of live audiences. You are right. What we are doing is not what i thought i would be doing. I thought that as close as could come to having conversations with different people
And only 5 5 contained. The transbay tube that connects the east bay with San Francisco will be closed all weekend for a major maintenance project. Ktvu fox Christien Kafton is joining us to talk about all the work that needs to be done. Reporter yeah a lot of work. As you can imagine a major inconvenience. Folks trying to figure a way around this really unprecedented bart closure. We were here at 4 30 as the west oakland bart station rolled up its gate. Passengers starting to make their way in at the end of the day here that gate will roll down and this west oakland bart station will be closed through the weekend along with the transbay tube. Bart is already asking anyone needing to make their way from San Francisco to the east bay to start planning now. Now bart has been notifying passengers of the major closure for weeks now. Effectively that means there will be no bart Service Starting at 6 00 saturday morning through sunday night from the east bay to San Francisco. Now bart has se
The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting for the rules committee for february 16, 2016 will begin shortly. [gavel] all right good afternoon everyone. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting of february 16, 2016. I am katy tang chair of the committee. To my left i have Supervisor Malia Cohen and to eric mar and joined by aaron peskin today. Our clerk is derek evans and i would like to thank our sfgtv staff. With that clerk do you have any announcements . Thank you madam chair. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and files somebody submitted to the clerk. Thank you and i know both items on the special committee is related but we will call them separately so please item 1 please. Item 1 is a initiative oar from the mayor for the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted are by the mayor for the voters for june 7, 2016 for election entitled ordinance mending the planning code to maximize inclusionary or Affordable Housing and Economic Feasibil
Welcome to the tuesday february 9there is echo on this. February 9, 2016 meeting of the finance committee of transportation authority. Im eric mar and to my right is london greedbreed and to my left is norman yee. The clerk is steve stomose and being broadcast today by [inaudible] and charles kremenak. Any announce mentds no announcement; breed present. Campos, absent. Commissioner kim, absent. Commissioner mar, present. Commissioner yee, present. We have quorum. I forgot to say [inaudible] happy year the mungy everyone. Please call the next item consent calendar items 2 to 3 are considered row teen. Staff isnt [inaudible] present if desired. If a member objects the items may be removaled and considered separately. Thank you. Lets open up for Public Comment. Anyone want to talk about the minutes . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve the minutes. I have a question. Y r i wasnt at the last meeting so need to rekoos myself from voting on the minutes. It looks like we d
Items on the special committee is related but we will call them separately so please item 1 please. Item 1 is a initiative oar from the mayor for the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted are by the mayor for the voters for june 7, 2016 for election entitled ordinance mending the planning code to maximize inclusionary or Affordable Housing and Economic Feasibility studies. We have staff here. We will have this presentation and if you get the powerpoint on the screen thank you. I want to be very clear the clear of this Initiative Ordinance is establish a pathway to maximize the amount of Affordable Housing that the city can require of developers. The current requirements are too low. Not only are they too low but theyre a one size fits all rules and acts if a luxury tower downtown has the same economics as a project in another neighborhood. The economics are different and the rules need to be different the mayor directed staff to bring working groups to bring stakeholders together for