Good afternoon and welcome to the november 12, 2019 regular meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . Thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , we have a quorum. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv, miss men doe didnt mr. Smith who record our recordings and make a transcript to the public available online. Any communications . None to report, mr. President. So today we are approving the minutes from the october 8th, 2019 Board Meeting and any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor furer and seconded by supervisor ronan. And without objection those will be approved after public comment. Madam clerk, will you please call the two pm special orders in. Yes, the special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the mayors ap
Meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . Thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , we have a quorum. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv, miss men doe didnt mr. Smith who record our recordings and make a transcript to the public available online. Any communications . None to report, mr. President. So today we are approving the minutes from the october 8th, 2019 Board Meeting and any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor furer and seconded by supervisor ronan. And without objection those will be approved after public comment. Madam clerk, will you please call the two pm special orders in. Yes, the special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the mayors appearance before the board and it is the appearance by the ho
Joined me as we cut the ribbon with mayor breed, but essentially designed to work with wonderful programs like Young Community developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the Construction Industry and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for longterm employment. So today after that, last year, many of you supported our citygrow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. And we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with preapprenticeship pathways to state. Approved apprenticeshp program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. Bases on
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Can you tell me what is causing those breakdowns and what the new system will prevent how the new system will prevent that type of occurrence on Treasure Island . Yeah, generally speaking, the vulnerability of the existing system is hi, both in the transmission lines, the above and underground portions of the existing system. They are buried and underground. Many of our outages, the p. U. C. The results of their work is inconclusive as to what caused the outage, which tends to indicate, it tends to point out to the primary switch here on the island. Even when they are able to identify an outage as being, for instance, related to a bird strike, really, the bird strike is a cause of the outage, but the underlying vulnerabilities in the mean underlying vulnerability is in the main switch. The new switchgear that we will have wilma will be much more fault tolerant. It will be able to handle fluctuations in amperage that happens, for instance, when a bird flies into the power lines. Without