For wired phones . Or is it now wireless as well . Like i said, during the reagan administration, the telephone voice subsidies began, and after the Bush Administration they introduced wireless. Today, there is wired and Wireless Voice available within the program. Daniel, has it been successful in your view . Its not clearly successful, and i think thats one of the problems that exists with the program now. Born as a political compromise between the carriers and the fcc when the government broke up the at t monopoly. , we arethe concern was going to establish this amount that we will give to low income consumers with the goal of making sure that low income consumers can get access to Telephone Service, but no one had really done a study to figure out whether the amount we are getting is actually going towards people who would otherwise not fall off the telik medications bid telecommunications bid. A report was issued last year that criticized the fcc for this. There is bipartisan supp
Africanamerican voters and also africanamerican candidates . Let me share with you, jesse holland, this is from a democrat, he worked for president bill clinton as a speechwriter and he says to t Voting Rights nationwide on heading on inattention by the American People, emboldened by the recent Supreme Court case limiting the reach of the Voting Rights act, they have worked weeklyo cut voting samed is not a paradox because often the africanamerican voters are those who cast their ballots early according to a number of studies. Guest that is a paradox. You would think someone is trying to recruit voters would want to make it as easy as possible those people to vote. Now, a lot of republican opportunists will tell you that even africanamericans are concerned about voter fraud and thats one of the issues that they tried to point at when you look at voter id law. However, one of the practical effect of voter id laws obviously is that make it makest harder for some people to vote. Now, one
That in 3 years after the passage of this legislation there will be an evaluation as to whether this is really solving the problem. Because a possible outcome is its not solving the problem and lets put more regulations in place or this is not working or maybe at that time there has been developments at the state level about making a division to exception or Something Like that to come back and look at the legislation. If im still around, i will be happy to reevaluate. Maybe this is a way to help that. Okay. So, commissioners, a couple things. So supervisor tang had, if we go with the department the health code legislation, shes proposed two amendments, correct, two amendments which are the requirement for the education be 500 hours so eliminating the 250 requirement and making the set standard of 500 hours and also to revoke a permit for 3 years from being able to reopen. Those are two things that will be amended in the Health Code Regulation and apart from that, other than than not h
Bit about whats going to take whether hospital or massage practitioners are going to be able to continue operating while they are complying and how much time are you proposing to give them. So sf govtv if i can just put the document on screen again. At the bottom you can see we are going to require that practitioner submit an application to dph permitting process within 90 days of the Effective Date of the ordinance. So you only have to submit it within 90 days. If we can complete the process, hopefully you can complete it as soon as possible but we are not going to penalize someone for not completing it within the 90 days. You just have to show a good faith effort. And we will allow those to continue in operation while on going this process. Our goal is to not put people out of business. Much of the process depends on the responsiveness of these other agencies, correct . Correct. We understand that. As long as the application is in within 90 days, the practitioner can continue his or
They had set certain types of businesses or types of businesses to be able to go through that expedite process. Currently massage is not in there. We are happy to continue that conversation, its not part of it right now. I think the larger picture with the Planning Department today in general is how is it that you are really better support the smaller businesses citywide across the industries. Thats something they have been looking at. They hired additional planners, like a dozen of them and they have programs for small types of businesses that maybe dont have to go through commissions. So im very interested in looking forward to that bigger conversation where again, massage would be included as part of that. The second issue is that you spoke about in terms of outreach in making sure people are aware of this proposal for conditional use process. This has been the process for many many years until 731 came into place. The other thing i want to highlight about it is that our Office Actu