On cspan. Org. The senate is weighing in on defense policies for 2021. And now to live coverage. Senate here on cspan2. To or. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, thank you for the gift of this day. Open the minds of our lawmakers and give them a vision of the unlimited possibilities available to those who trust you as their guide. May our senators embrace a hugh millty embrace a humility that seeks first to understand rather than to be understood. Inspire them to seek your wisdom as you sustain them with your grace, mercy, and peace. Lord, remind them that you will judge their fruits, productivey and faithfulness. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president.
We do as a city, as you all know, have an obligation for affirmatively fair housing. This developers have bottom lines to deliver for investors. They can be pressured to provide affordable minutes to make concessions regarding labor practices. At the end of the day it is this balance and this discussion that is at the heart of whether we are furthering fair housing or not. When we are having the neighborhood around 80 of the units unaffordable to working class units disproportionatesly available to white folks. We are taking steps backwards. I appreciate your work on this. We are in a point of urgency on so many fronts. Thank you for your time put into this. I appreciate it. This is one of the most robust discussions i have had and i want to thank Planning Department staff for signaling a new direction. Thank you, miriam and your colleagues. I want to say a couple things. One of them is a policy desire. I think it is low hanging fruit. I mentioned it earlier. Historically when we wante
Lower communities of color and we should have that in an apples to apples way. I was part of the movement to when supervisor kim threatened to annex a nearby city that was unwilling to increase the housing density on vacant land, so lets expand that conversation. So supervisor mar, and i really appreciate everything that you have, and please any closing comments for you, supervisor mar. And what is your will . Thank you so much, chair peskin and supervisor preston for your comments and engagement in this really important discussion. There is a number of very important items to get to so i will keep the closing comments very short. I did want to summarize that my goal today was emphasize the importance of data and who is the housing for and are we prioritizing and addressing the Housing Needs of residents an communities to insure the diverse and racially Equitable Society . This needs to be the core of our housing policy frame work, not just in the rhetoric and not just in theary tough
Comment is closed. Vice president follansbee okay. On the motion to move the budget to the Mayors Office, all in favor . Opposed . Lets go into item 16. Clerk item 16 is the infert willi infertility benefit status update for blue shield of california, presented by shawn lovering. I would be remiss if i did not think, on behalf of did not thank, on behalf of blue shield, natalie, for all of her work and support. We are going to miss you. Next slide. Next slide. So were here today to give you an update on our efforts around infertility. It was brought to our attention last year that there were some issues, and were going to bring to your attention that we can fix things. [inaudible] when they added the Custom Benefits that you see on the right. Next slide. So we did a ton of research when this was brought to our attention, and we identified the following areas where we had gaps. Benefit authorization and identification process. We understand that infertility is a prepersonalize very pers
We have a quorum. Thank you, commissioner secretary would you mind make the announcements please. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and the department of Public Health and governor and mayor lifted restrictions on teleconferencing and being televised. For those watching theres a time lag. On behalf of the commission id like to extend our thanks to sfgov. Tv for their assistance. If you wish to make a Public Comment on an item dial 8882733658 code 3107452 and pound followed by found again. When Public Comment is given youll hear when it is your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. I will alert you when your time is expired. The instructions will be repeat. If you have not already done so, ill ask Commission Staff to mute their microphone to minimize background noise. Before i read the first item id like to let everybody know item 12 [reading item] has been pulled from the agenda. The first item of business is item 3 approval of minutes of june 9, 2020. Commission