[applause] hello everyone. Privilege tor and introduce our next Vice President ial candidate senator kamala harris. [applause] senator harris grew up believing in the promise of america and fights every day to ensure that promise is available to all americans. She started fighting for working families in the district attorneys office. From there, she became the first black woman elected as san franciscos district attorney. In 2010, she made history again by becoming the first black woman to be elected attorney general of california. serseeing the country secondlargest Justice Department where she continues to fight for families, the lgbtq , students and our environment. Ince joining the senate 2016, senator harris has continued her fight for all americans. As a member of three powerful intelligence commit judiciary and homeland security, senator harris graduated from Howard University where she was in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and learn her law degree from Uc Hastings College of l
Casting this meeting. To protect the employees and the public due to covid 19 the meeting in the chambers is closed. Due to state and federal orders and directives. You can participate in the meeting through video conference. Comments are available through each item on this agenda. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period will be available during. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly. Turn down your television and radio. You can make Public Comment in the following ways. Provide Public Comments via email, it will be forded to the supervisors and be included in part of the decision file. Thank you very much. Can you please call items one, two, and three together. Sus spendin suspending the ct policy and recurring expenditures. Item number two all estimated receipts and expenditures of the city by july 31. Item no. 3 annual salary ordinance and annual budget ordinance for the fiscal years ending 2021 and june 302022. If you wis
Clearly, his bright light will continue to shine. Rest in peace, ronnie chapman. You will be missed. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, im introducing a resolution along with supervisor ronen urging the association of bay area governments, abag, in its up coming Regional Housing needs allocation, or rhna, to maintain their current housing level needs in San Francisco. The California Department of housing and Community Development recently assigned the bay area a new region wide rhna Housing Production goal that is 2. 35 times more than our existing one, or our goal of producing nearly 500,000 new homes in eight years throughout the bay area. San francisco should take a position on how the numbers will be allocated to local jurisdictions, as it will have a real impact on Speculative Development in our city if the goals are not met. If our housing goal is artificially too high, it will trigger s. B. 35. We know that socalled streamlining woul
The chair of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on asia, the pacific, and nonproliferation provided an update on Global Cooperation during the coronavirus pandemic. California congressman ami bera talked about the council how countries can Work Together to address the pandemic. Minutes,e next 25 congressman bra and i will discuss the post covid world order, and then we are going to open up the conversations to questions from our members. Thank you for joining us today, congressman. Thank you for that introduction. Certainly i want to thank the council for this opportunity. When you look at the list of participants, there are a lot of people that we use for contact expertise. Im sure we will have a lively discussion. Lets get started. Since the outbreak of the covid debatec, a fascinating has emerged about the potential impact of the coronavirus on the global order. Some experts maintain the virus will have a transformative effect. Kissingere, dr. Henry has written the world will ne
Kissli. President yee all right. Good afternoon and welcome to the august 11, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I hope my supervisors had a full week off last week and was able to get some rest. As you know, were going to be doing a lot of work in august. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, who record the meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board are participating to the same extent as if they were present in their chamber. The board knows that the Novel Coronavirus has made participation is more acute. Your w