The comments in the document should be acknowledged, either comment received or this is where you can find this information further, so that people, when they take the time to engage in public projects, that their comments are responded to, and they think that theres a consideration taken in the public involvement. Operator thank you, caller. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Pilpell. That was a good comment. Are there any other members of the public for this item . Operator there are no other Public Comments. Chair peskin all right. Seeing no further Public Comment, Public Comment is closed, and this is an information item. As i se as i said earlier, this is an item that has been going on and off for the last two decades, and i think many of us thought this was the time to resurrect this item that started under the leadership of louise moscovitch many years ago. There has been no provenation about anything. We want to do it right, but we want to go about, albeit difficult during covid, a ro
Actually, call the roll, miss major. Call the roll, supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor safai. Safai absent. Supervisor preston. Present. Thank you, sorry, safai is present. The only reason i asked for you to call the roll, the screen that i have doesnt show me everybody who is participating, so im not sure why this device is doing that. But all right. Ms. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Yes, mr. Chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, employees and the public, board of supervisor legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will participate in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order and all local and state orders. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed
Good afternoon. Welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, november 2nd, the day before the most important election in our lives. Our clerk is miss erica major, miss major, let me announce actually, call the roll, miss major. Call the roll, supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor safai. Safai absent. Supervisor preston. Present. Thank you, sorry, safai is present. The only reason i asked for you to call the roll, the screen that i have doesnt show me everybody who is participating, so im not sure why this device is doing that. But all right. Ms. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Yes, mr. Chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, employees and the public, board of supervisor legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will participate in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order and all local and state orde
Representing Small Businesses under extreme pressure, dean ito taylor, allen lowe, and in my office, my staff, lee hefner, and with that, supervisor preston, are there any comments that you might like to add or subtract . Nothing to subtract. Let me just add to thank you, chair peskin, for your leadership on this issue, and also for i think threading the needle in a way thats smart, thats going to force some Property Owners to the table. I do think that there is in a sense the way it is right now and i think we all came together and appreciate the mayors leadership around the moratorium, and those have been, the ones done by executive order have been shortterm, and by their nature that makes some sense and i think this is the right process where we are looking at something thats going to be around longer, provide longer term protection, that it goes through the body, allows folks to weigh in in a way that they cant necessarily do so with the same public process on executive orders. But
President , mariano alias was deployed yesterday to a wild land fire up near the bear fire. So they will not be presenting today. It is, as you can see, a crazy wildfire season going on right now. And chief wyrsch may speak about it more, but i know we have 41 members out right now at various fires. There are so many fires going on. And you know, it looks like we all woke up in mars today or something. So anyways, so lets talk about covid. So far, we have had 26 positive tests. We currently have 15 in quarantine. So we have had a bit of a jump. Seven of those positives were folks coming back from wildland deployment, so were definitely seeing how difficult it is out there to, you know, we cant socially distance, but we are putting some practices in place to try to head that number off, including having our members tested when they come home. And then we are most likely going to be putting them in quarantine for five days. And then testing them again before we release them back to the f