Present. Director johnbaptiste present. Director lipkin present. Director syed present. Director tumlin here and vice chair mandelman present and chair gee present as well we have quorum should you. Call the next item. Communications. Note the process for the members of the may comment on the meeting during Public Comment periods. Tjpa also plans to provide a callin line for remote Public Comment at the meeting. We may have technical technical difficulties or otherwise. Inperson Public Comment will be taken first; remote Public Comment will be taken after. At the bottom of the screen with that, any other Communications Directors . Seeing none. Call the next item. Board of directors new and old business. And. 5. Executive directors report. Downtown rail extension dtx the portal update. Good morning directors nice to see you after a month away chair covered the holidays. The an eventful two months and ill be covering a couple of temples in the report starting on dtx positive news for the
In a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. We thank you for your cooperation. Places you on item number two. Roll call director lindsay. My apologies. Not used to going first present. Lindsay lindsay present. I see her joined. Yep director so present. So present. Director here. Present director. Karina. Present. Present directors eakin and hemingway are not expected today at todays meeting. However, you do have a quorum. And for the record, i know that director lindsay is attending this meeting remotely. Director kinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three, the ringing and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited. At this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices places you on item number
Melgar, present. Peskin, present. Preston, present. Ronan, not present. Safai, present. Stefani, present. Walton, present. Mr. President , you have quorum. Thank you madam clerk. Colleagues, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor ronan . Made by supervisor walton and second by supervisor melgar and we take that without objection. Supervisor ronan is excused. San francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush c
San Francisco Health commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes of the Health Commission meeting from august 1, 2023. I believe there was some kind of correction, so secretary morewitz, if you can share that with us. Page 2 of the revised minutes i added Public Comment for Robert Rinehart and apol
Good morning everybody [applause] good morning. [applause] and welcome. [applause] theres my grandma. Well come. Welcome to San Francisco James R Herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Unt