Supervisor fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the july 29, 2020 regular board and finance Committee Meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair. And i am joined by supervisors mandelman and walton. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Clerk yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, however members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Again, 146 812 0226 then press pound twi
Next speaker, please. Yes, hello. Speaking for equity for older students sm wstudents. We can be reached at equity forr older students dot org. The issue is public land being sold privately forever. City college is in very dire straights. The board of trustees and administration have made massive class cuts including the almost complete disruption of the older adults program. Three hundred classes cut last fall. Five hundred in the year before. This year, huge cuts in the esl program. Campuses are closing. Now theres to be another cut to existing use and potential growth including Affordable Housing and other uses by city college. We urge you to consider that many of the staff and teachers of city college are opposed to this as well. I would lake to bring your attention to two letters that were recently sent to the committee. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im in support of the reservoir project. I hope you move this project forward. Its exactly what we need into san
[indiscernable] it is between high density housing and shopping and so forth. That hasnt happened. The commercial district is taken up by expensive condos. A few units that are affordable. Those would be gone. I would very much like to speak to supervisor peskin about it. I will mention the only project recently that i know of was the one that i proposed and the Mayors Office of housing agreed and david baker and everybody was hot to trot. That was the project supervisor peskin tried to save by landmarking. He was no longer in office and david chu were not interested in a Senior Housing project. They tried to find Affordable Housing initially and reducing the price but didnt think there were any. Operator thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller i am a Research Analyst and one of the things my job touches on is asking that the community evaluate what kinds of jobs is given Hotel Development might bring to the community and how those jobs will correlate to the ability of those workers to
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