Street, and the same experience that i just read supervisor preston had with regard to a potential Navigation Center in the Fifth District in the heart of our city. So i wanted to ring that note of optimism as we are all rolling in the same direction in different ways, but the people of the city and county of San Francisco should be commended. And with that, supervisor safai has made a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. And we are adjourned. Great. Is our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States, which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city, if we dont have all of the folks in california, california and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in fund
Statement from me and from mr. Cole then well go tow our distinguished witnesses. Today the rules committee will hold a hearing to discuss how the constitution separated powers between the legislative and executive branches and how the balance of power between these branches has shifted over time. We are doing this in the hopes of finding concrete Bipartisan Solutions to better ensure congress is playing the role our nations founders envisioned. Thats a lot, i know. And while a constitutional debate may be fun for law students and legal scholars and mr. Raskin [ laughter ] the it wasnt fun when i was yeah. For the rest of us, it could feel a little in the weeds. So, so for the rest of us, let me simplify. You know, we throw around the phrase, the peoples house, a lot around here, but this really is but this really is about whether we remain the institution that our nations founders created to be the voice of the people. The constitution entrusts congress with deciding how to spend fede
Commissioner chan is very in touch with the Veterans Community, and in process of working with two areas of interest in the San Francisco community. The first one is getting free access to the state parks and recreation, and the state level recreation b. M. R. , as well. Jason is currently managing the Veterans Justice Court as a men tar coordinator. Mentor coordinator. I was so impressed with sitting down with both [inaudible] chair ronen thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. My name is linda yee. I hope you dont just consider bill barnickel for the next four years as a commissioner, i hope you appoint him. I cant say how much he did for my 96yearold dad who served in the borna war theater. I helped him through the application process. It was really difficult. We waited, and we waited. Two years later, no word from the Veterans Administration. So i finally contacted Congress Woman Jackie Speiers office, and they said my dad did not qualify.
President bleiman hello and welcome to the march 3, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. My name is ben bleiman, and i am the president of the commission. If you want to speak on Public Comment, you need to fill out a speaker card or you can just come to the podium when its Public Comment. I want to thank sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this media with the public, and well start with roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Thank you. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is comment on any item that is not on our regular agenda tonight. Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman next agenda item is number two, which is approval of our minutes for the february 18, 2020 meeting, and ill ask if we have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the february 8, 2020 meeting. I move to approve. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is
Chair ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Good morning and welcome to the february 24, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. Seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. Seating to my left for supervisor Catherine Stefani is matt haney. Our clerk is gordon an youyoun id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all phones and electr electron electronic devices. Items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Chair rone chair ronen thank you. Can you please read item one. Clerk would you like to excuse supervisor stefani . Chair ronen thank you. Yes. [gavel]. Clerk now would you please read item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen and we have supervisor peskin. Hello, supervisor peskin. Would you like to make any opening comments . Supervisor peskin thank you, chair ronen, supervisor haney, and supervisor mar. As youre aware, the board of supervisors gives the board the power of subpoena which was s