Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Rain chances in San Francisco are going to go back up as we get past midnight and the scattered showers continue to develop offshore and head towards us with more offandon activity in the forecast tomorrow. Check it out with futurecast in a few minutes. All right, paul, sounds good. California is off to a late start looking water for its reservoirs. They are at about 70 to 80 of where they should be right now. Auc water scientist told us today, there is still plenty of opportunity to make up the difference. Remember, you can stay on top of the changing weather by downloading the kpix 5 news app. New at 6 00, Santa Clara County is wrapping up covid19 testing ahead of the holidays. As kpix 5s reporter tells us, Health Officials are hoping that if one rushes out to get tested. Reporter as we head into the holiday season, yes, the county is wrapping up covid testing. They say that is no excuse for bad behavior. Reporter the testing set at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds is the single la
Different approaches to segregation. When we react, does a fiend, you are talking about significant as tlc. Different approaches to reach the same goal. Sometimes it will work, depending on who you are and what the situation is. We need to take time to look at how all those things come together at how all of those things come together, not condemn one way or another way. You have to take in the full context to understand what was happening. So these stories will help us see when we are in our own situation today, it is all right to take different approaches, depending on what was happening at the time. Thank you for that. I wanted to follow up with another question. Can you talk about who Maggie Walker was . She was one of the first africanamerican women to register to vote after the 19th amendment was ratified. Tell us a little bit about who she was and is there anything in her personal papers, anything she wrote or said that gives us insight into how she felt . Clearly she thought it
And stillents today, there is nothing in the communityto show that foot soldiers were. Thank you very much. Presentation. L gina, we are going to go to you next please. Joe, thank you for sharing your story there. Of oralese kinds histories that really make these us, and tod real for tell these stories bring more of the cultural outreach that is so necessary for us to have and connect with. In fact, that is part of the mission of the National Park , the selma to montgomery trail. That is what was the underpinning for the commemoration that we had, and for the 19th amendment this year , to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, that andted, suffrage for women through the constitution. In our though, commemoration, wanted to keep in mind two things that the National Park service must , but not allo all women achieve the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment. Second, the struggle was very much defined by class and race and religion. Those ar
Enhance the work that the National Park service was doing to interpret the africanamerican experience. Sadly, she passed away at the start of this year. And i wanted to take a moment about the preservation of the history of the struggle to achieve black Voting Rights to remember my boss k my friend and a true you pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make conservation and preservation npca more s like just, diverse and includesive. Thank you iantha. Folks are going to be aware that the history for the struggle of Voting Rights is wide ranging, multifaceted and current. Its still going on. What we want to do with this panel of experts and people who are my friends, folks that i admire is to get their insights on this issue but maybe in more specific and direct ways. Weve got one person, Josephine Bowman mccall who lived through the struggle of Voting Rights. Well hear from josephine about that. Her familys experiences, her experiences and what shes doing now to preserve that histor