To covering congress. Today in the Senate Lawmakers will debate the nomination of eileen cannon to be u. S. District court judge for the Southern District of florida. Votes are expected at noon eastern. Now live to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal master, we honor you for your glory and strength. Your glory fills us with reverence and your strength inspires us with courage. Bless our lawmakers. Inspire them to find fulfillment in the splendor of holiness. Lord, remind them that you expect people of faith to illuminate the darkness of this world with exemplary actions that prompt people to glorify you. May our senators remember that their conduct, particularly during times of adversity, has longterm consequences. Lord, we praise you that you continue to rule our universe. We pray in your awesome name. Amen. The president pro tempore p
You may watch live at www. Sftv. Gov. To participate by phone you can callin and use the access code 148 9208779. Someone is making background noise. Members of the public will have an opportunity to participate during Public Comment. The public is asked to wait for an agenda item before making a comment on that item. Comments will be addressed in the order received. When taking public commit members can press star 3 and you will be queued. Callers will hear silence. They will have the standard 3 minutes to provide Public Comment. Make sure you are in a quiet location speak clearly, and turn off any tvs or read yos around you. Item one, roll call. [clerk reads names of senators in attendance] [clerk reads names of members in attendance] general comment. Members may address the members for three minutes. Speaker shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual personnel. They cannot enter into debate with the speaker. The lack of response doesnt constitute ag
Chair where are you . I see myself but not on the screen. Thats a background in san pablo bay. Chair i thought your office was getting better. I didnt realize that was my background. Im not speaking from there, but my home office. Im very grateful. The issues raised are important and fair. We cannot supervisor peskin, you brought this up in the very first hearing that is critical for our society. I feel like the department of building inspection and all the other city Agency Agencies willn this. I am committed to working with everyone and excited to get going. Thank you for this opportunity. Chair thank you, ms. Rafael. Do you do that in conjunction with the office of economic and Workforce Development or do you have that function within your department . We work very closely with joaquin tores and the office of development. We will be working with them to get developers ready to comply with this ordinance and to understand the legalities of their compliance, what those issues are. And
Hernandez for broadcasting this meeting. Do we have any announcements . To protect our commissioners, city employees, and the public, city hall is closed. Lafco members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This is pursuant to the various state and local orders and directives. Commissioners will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda via telephone. Both channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. You can call 4156550001, meetimee meeting id is 146 3547117, then pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. Press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, and speak slowly and clearly and turn down your television or video. You can submit Public Comments by emails me, the lafco clerk or by u. S. Mail. It will be forwarded to
Charged until june 4 of this year. While the City Attorneys Office was building the case against mr. Hernandez, a contractor number two or three in the complaint. It did not have the facts by that day. Incredibly, in may 28, 2020, works submitted a bid to be a subcontractor for a new project for the city a new multimillion dollar contract. They did this knowing the fbi had evidence mr. Hernandez bribed city officials. The public, city officials and reporters rightfully asked. How can an indated contractor seek new work with the city . In that case the charging documents had admissions the fbi called as lies. Such as that mr. Hernandez said he only gave 20,000 worth of goods and services. He die understood several hundred thousand worth of services for a vacation home. We were able to use the admission of 20,000 and not sufficient to have him charged with a crime to seek de barment. If that were not in there, in the charging documents we would not have been able to prevent the works fro