Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
Way to go. Its not designed to handle all of the traffic. On weekends and commute hours theres a large backup there. Plus chain of lake intersects with mlk and jfk and i hate to say this, but not all people who use the roadway obey those stop signs. I had a scary incident, i was on jfk and chain of lake and i had the right of way according to the rule book and this lady on a bicycle just whizzed by, didnt look or stop. Scared the heck out of me. Lucky i stopped. You need to look at the big picture. Also, you need to look at 19th avenue. 19th avenue cannot handle any increase in traffic. Clerk 30 seconds. Caller you need to look at the big picture when you make the decision. Maybe there was an alternative that sounded good, maybe dividing the road into half. Thank you. Bye. Clerk next speaker please. You have five questions remaining. Caller this is barry toronto. I first wanted to say that roberta boomer did this more than christina, announce you have to hit 10 to participate in Public
Shootings, is that in some areas of the city, they have been group involved in games or groups and bayview, inkel tied e and we know theyre tied to previous homicides or homicides that happen in other cities and this is a phase of retaliation sometimes that retaliation has been laid and that is not uncommon. An incident may happen and you may have a retaliation a year later. Thats not uncommon at all. The other thing, in certain districts like in the tenderlo tenderloin, the degree of our shootings are by narcotics activity. Weve had narcotics related robberies go bad that results in shootings and the like and even some of the once outside of the tenderloin, we know for just based on investigations that that is narcotic related activity. Also, we know that very few of these shootings are just random. We have disputes and an argument that gets out of control and someone ends it with bringing out a gun. That number is not as large as the other two areas than the group involved and i say
We have some ideas that will not only enhance our district, but will enhance the city if we get the opportunity to do it. We have a wonderful culture,and this gives us an opportunity not only to educate, but also to entertain in a way that benefits us finally, and not everybody else. So please, with all of your might, put all of the resources and all of the commitments you can into finally giving the Africanamerican Community an opportunity to highlight itself in a positive instead of a negative way. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller good morning again, virginia marsh, the president of the San Francisco alliance of blacks of educators. The africanamerican cultural district in the bay view is so wonderful. It supports our students. My school is right next due to the bayvie bay view hop pra house opera house. And they have been very supported to our students. She posts the students art around the walls. Weve had our band club there over the years. If you h
There continues to be concern that gatherings could lead to more transmission. Liz kreutz joining us live with the latest from the state on exactly where things stand, liz. Larry, yes, things continue to be not so great in california while San Francisco, marin and san mateo counties did not get moved into the purple tier today. Numbers continue to go up and another number on the rise, hospitalizations. With thanksgiving just two days away, californias covid19 cases are not showing any signs of slowing down. The 14day Positivity Rate is 5. 6 , a 51 increase from two weeks ago on november 10th when it was 3. 7 . At that point, there were 7,000 cases a day. Today there is more than 15,000. Hospitalizations have increased since then, too by a whopping 81 . Statewide, i dont believe weve ever seen as many hospital admissions increased like we did just in the past 24 hours. This message critical ahead of the Holiday Season. Today californias health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galle