The authorization directs the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and Small Business. Sfgovtv is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each agenda item today. Sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming the tollfree number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak are available by calling 8882045984 using access code 3501008 and pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected, you dial one and zero when the q a period opens, and you will be allowed to submit your testimony. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. I will announce when your time is up and direct my staff to take the next person in the queue to speak. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television or computer. At this time i would like to take roll. President hyland. Here. Vice president matsuda. Here. C
Welcome to the San Francisco hearing. I would like to enter the following, on february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a state of emergency due to covid19. Therefore, due to the health emergency, city hall is called and there will be emergencies with boards, commissions and other policy hearings. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received permission to reconvene through the end of the shelterinplace. They prioritize infrastructure, housing and Small Businesses. This will be our fifth remote hearing. Im requesting everyones patience in advance. The merged platforms are not perfect and at times may even seem clumsy. If you are not speaking, mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit any controls that may affect other participants. Allow the producer to do her job. To unable participation, sf gov is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each agenda. They are streaming the tollfree number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or op
Expanding, we can make good decisions about how we use our limited resources to uphold the public good if were clear about our values and if we understand how to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with
Id like to enter the following announcement into the record that on february 25th, 2020, the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to covid19. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have suspended suspending select laws applicable to commissions and making it possible to hold Commission Hearings remotely. And on april 3rd, there was authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene remotely through the end of the shelterinplace. Recognizing that the commissions consideration of certain projects is an essential government operation. And it directs the commission to prioritize the action items pertaining to infrastructure and housing and Small Business. And i will also in advance remind members of the public, staff, and the commission that this platform is not perfect and that at times becomes clumsy. We have learned that at ts bridge conference is finicky. So in advance we do request your patience. There are built in delays in broadcast from the live events to sfgovtv and the a
Important place, nine justices and only them meet around a table in the Conference Room. Aty discuss the cases heard oral arguments and begin the process of reaching a decision of the court. Sit at one end and it wraps around the table in order of seniority. I remember the first time i set foot in the room. It is pretty daunting the first few times. Because thats where the actual work and the Decision Making takes place. We dont have any observers in the Conference Room. Nobody can enter the room who is not a justice. No secretary, no law clerk. Not even a message bearer. I have to be professional and accurate and fair and each of my colleagues feel the same way. So there is a little tension and excitement in the room. We love it. Were designed to do that. The job is no good if you cant argue. I initiate the discussion for an argued case. I will say, this case is about this and the arguments are so and so. And i think we should reverse or affirm and heres why. Sometimes in an easy case