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President yee good afternoon and welcome to the october 20th, 2020 october 20th, 2020. Regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Would you please call the roll. Clerk [roll call] president yee supervisor fewer will be a few minutes late and she will joining shortly. You have a quorum. President yee pleasure righe right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and and to the republic for which it stands, on...

Economy heading into recession. Well it may be one i think in terms of recession with engines and the virus kron 4 news at 5 starts right now. Thank you for joining us tonight at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan and our top story tonight, slowing the spread of the coronavirus. And how you can help protect yourself and others as you can see we are practicing socialdistancing here kron 4 catherine an eye. Our different desks hi catherine high were going to be doing this fo...

Thanks for joining 9 oclock, everybody im grant lotus can over and Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight. Local city leaders they are not taking any chances with the virus. Yeah we are not taking chances either and crown for trying to practice what we preach Health Officials obviously stressing the importance of social distancing to try to slow the spread of this virus. So were doing the same catherine over there about 12 feet away. Lawrence karnow to my right gangs all here so this is ...

Welcome back as lawmakers look for a solution to combating the coronavirus they are now looking for ways to include military kron fours washington correspondent morgan right has that story. Rhode island senator jack reed says the nations response to the coronavirus may need to include the us military what capacity they had 2 assists so and to the states and localities reid says in times like this military resources can make a difference bility transfer critical equipment from one place to anothe...

We select the best solutions, which can then be replicated and used both on the brix and eac platforms, and we also discussed today together with maxim stanislavovich oreshkin, went on a delegation to uzbekistan, met with the president of uzbekistan, and also presented the projects of the agency for strategic initiatives, and an agreement was reached and an agreement on the implementation of the project was already signed. In the field of Unmanned Aircraft, the development of Unmanned Aircraft s...

Person with an obvious disability and people talk about that people with disabilities dont bike, she said, yes, she did and shes had a kid and since then she and her kid bicycle, so even then we got an education of our own, against our own bias. And further the east band of the bay bridge is named after a senior who is a longtime bicycle advocate and that happened after he was 75 and hes still doing it after 80. So im trying to say that there are real people from our joint constituencies who do ...

Efforts that ill highlight that you may be familiar with, and so the image on the left is something that the city of San Francisco put out and i want to say like in 2014, and as the guidelines for accessible Building Blocks for bicycle facilities and it was to be this document that was dynamic i think, that when it came to bike infrastructure and our street design would set th guidelines whether policies or dimensions or policies to make sure that the new bike infrastructure that came in would a...

More welcoming for everyone who is biking there, everyone using those streets. Were often partnering with local neighborhood associations, were working with city agencies, with elected officials, with merchant groups, whoever it is and even if they love the project or hate the project. But that is really the bread and the butter of our advocacy work. Next slide is to push for policy on Street Safety and i know that after may youll get a presentation from megan weir around vision zero so vision z...

Officials, with merchant groups, whoever it is and even if they love the project or hate the project. But that is really the bread and the butter of our advocacy work. Next slide is to push for policy on Street Safety and i know that after may youll get a presentation from megan weir around vision zero so vision zero is one of our key policies that were pushing for, zero fatalities or serious injuries by 2024 and you also heard from kate breen today and we work with the legislative affairs on pu...

Project. But that is really the bread and the butter of our advocacy work. Next slide is to push for policy on Street Safety and i know that after may youll get a presentation from megan weir around vision zero so vision zero is one of our key policies that were pushing for, zero fatalities or serious injuries by 2024 and you also heard from kate breen today and we work with the legislative affairs on pushing for policies at the state level even, like automated speed enforcement. So were really ...