And id also like to thank samuel williamses and high Maya Hernandez from sfgov tv. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Summerall. Can you please call item number one . Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Great. We have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from Committee Members. Lets hear from mr. Scott patterson first. If he is ok. Great. Please come forward. Hello. Thank you for having me here today. Im Scott Patterson, candidate for the Ballot Simplification Committee. My family traces its roots in San Francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so weve been around for a long time. Ive been a member of the faculty at San Francisco State University as a professor of broadcast and electronic Communication Arts for o
Applicants. Were concern that they may not be able to get bank loans and would be great if the city budget could include lowinterest loans for these businesses. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who wish to speak on item four, please come on up . Hi, my name is wolfon im with the chineseamerican democratic club. I respectfully ask to reject all recommendations coming from the task force. It has been over a year of activism thats come of the neighbourhood and none of these recommendations come to support or address the needs of the neighbourhoods. I find that somewhat i nienlds offensive. I find that very offensive. Since the last time ive spoken in front of the board ands in front of planning, two and a half months has passed since theres been a lot of people thats reached out to me. Two of the top concerns that i have heard is cannabis grow within homes, rentsed homeswr and i respectfully ask that everything from the task force be rejected until there are resolution
Committee. Our clerk is alyssa summerall and id also like to thank samuel williamses and high Maya Hernandez from sfgov tv. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Summerall. Can you please call item number one . Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Great. We have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from Committee Members. Lets hear from mr. Scott patterson first. If he is ok. Great. Please come forward. Hello. Thank you for having me here today. Im Scott Patterson, candidate for the Ballot Simplification Committee. My family traces its roots in San Francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so weve been around for a long time. Ive been a member of the faculty at San Francisco State University as a professor of broadcas
Maya hernandez from sfgov tv. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Summerall. Can you please call item number one . Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Great. We have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from Committee Members. Lets hear from mr. Scott patterson first. If he is ok. Great. Please come forward. Hello. Thank you for having me here today. Im Scott Patterson, candidate for the Ballot Simplification Committee. My family traces its roots in San Francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so weve been around for a long time. Ive been a member of the faculty at San Francisco State University as a professor of broadcast and electronic Communication Arts for over 20 years. For 10 of those years, i served as chai
Points into three key points around availability of data, accuracy of data, and being folks being able to ingest it. A lot of the data that we requested is not available because its not broken down in ways that are meaningful and helpful to identify the communities that are most negatively impacted. A lot of times that means that we cannot actually get answers to some of the most pertinent questions. There was a situation that we were in a meeting and wanted to know the population of special education students that were of africanamerican ethnicity or race. And we were not able to get that information, even though we know its one of the larger groups and most impacted in that. Weve had a lot of issues around accuracy. Weve requested data countless times before they had a good, computerized system and gave us 800 documents to sort and sift through to discuss whether its disproportionate suspensions towards africanamericans, and there was. We till have struggles knowing if its accurate a