President yee good afternoon and welcome to the august 18, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 pandemic, the members of the board participated remotely Via Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present in their meeting chamber. The city believes that it is essential all communities with and without internet have the ability to participate remotely in this meeting
Welcome to the San Francisco remote hearing for thursday, july 30, 2020. Ill enter into the record the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to covid19. Furthermore the mayor and governor have issued orders making it possible to hold hearings remotely. April 3, 2020 the Planning Commission received orders to rehold remote hearing. Im requesting everyones patience. The platform not perfect and at times fail. If you are not speaking, mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit controls that may affect other participants. To enable participation sfgov. Tv is broadcasting and streaming live and will receive Public Comment by calling the tollfree number across the bottom. Opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 18882733658 access code 3107452 speaking pound and pound again. If you are connected and would like to speak or submit your comment hit 1 and then 0 and you will have three minutes and will hear a chime when you
Rehold remote hearing. Im requesting everyones patience. The platform not perfect and at times fail. If you are not speaking, mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit controls that may affect other participants. To enable participation sfgov. Tv is broadcasting and streaming live and will receive Public Comment by calling the tollfree number across the bottom. Opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 18882733658 access code 3107452 speaking pound and pound again. If you are connected and would like to speak or submit your comment hit 1 and then 0 and you will have three minutes and will hear a chime when your time is up. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and mute the volume on your television or computer. Theres a delay on the sfgov. Tv board of by a good 60 to 90 seconds and if youre streaming theres a delay of a good 15 seconds. At this time id like to take roll. Commissioner koppe
Facebook. And support the amazing events at the funds with this quarantine dance this weekend. Visit the website to learn more. And i left off fred. Fred is going to kill me. Thank you to our executive director fred, who is as we speak is watching and working so hard to put together an amazing virtual pride event. Thank you, thank you, thank you, fred lopez. Thank you all so much. Take care and show your pride. So great to host with you, carolyn. Great to host with you. Happy pride. Thank you all. Bye. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state
With d. O. A. In good faith. In addition, this is lawanna, if you look at the bottom of the page, there is a confidentiality notice, and there is a confidentiality requirement when the employer and organized labor are exchanging proposals. Those are not things that get sent out in public, just thats not how this process works. T [inaudible] the way it works is after you have an agreement, the documents that you argue with are private documents. After the agreement is reached, you can release them, but while were negotiating and this is not just the p. O. A. , all the other 30 unions in San Francisco, we do not release documents when were in a meet and confer process with anybody. Commissioner dejesus this isnt a contract for money. This is how were going to proceed under covid and whether its going to be in person or on zoom. I dont understand why that is confidential . I mean, you know i dont understand why we cant have a discussion with the public knowing what the issues are without