It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y
Agencies as well. This is our first hearing on the president s fiscal year 2021 budget request. However, i want to start with a matter of urgency. The coronavirus, covert 19, cases are growing as is alarm, this is both domestically and internationally. The u. S. Government has responded to the covert 19 outbreak with aggressive measures, significant travel restrictions, mandatory 14day quarantine for individuals returning to the u. S. From province. Mr. Secretary, i support your declaration of a Public Health emergency, we are dealing with the likelihood of a global pandemic, interesting to note yesterday from the cdc that commented that with regard to the United States its not a question of if but a question of when we will face the issue seriously here. That said, i have serious concerns about the administrations responsiveness with respect to funding, i understand senators of both parties expressed a similar concern to you at their hearing yesterday. I have repeatedly asked for info
Galleries that are watching their behavior adequately, they stay on even long after theyve become ineffective and not noteworthy to the court anymore. There are all these dangers of how you keep that focus and how you keep that task properly done. Make the case for why you all should be the oversight in the context of those dangers. I think we have not suggested that we should be the oversight for the because i know some have suggested that we be the body to appoint the members, a pool of special advocates or appoint a special advocate. We intentionally did not recommend that in part because we have an oversight function of the im sorry, i misunderstood. I thought that was your suggestion. No. We recommend that the court choose from private attorneys to act as special advocate and then there be reporting as to when the court exercised its jurisdiction to bring those parties in. How do you avoid the pet lawyer or the synicure effects in that circumstance . We thought long and hard about
Communication and this is a great model of what ive been trying to articulate. I call it within the concepts of actual contents this provides information to teach to folks in the corridors so they can improve their neighborhoods. If we can build the capacity in those neighborhoods it will carry on. So really appreciate that and want to see the department do more of that. And along the lines of captive commissioner talked about providing accessibility to the data. I think that could help neighborhoods also. Theyve already participated in some of the collecting of it. So thank you commissioner moore. Following up on capacity building. I think in the idea of interconnected those documents youve district will be accessible in pdf form so individuals can download them and whyd use them for themselves and comparing them across the neighborhoods. There are certain neighborhoods that are doing some things were not able to do people can see this on the web. The question id like to have answered
Spent a lot of time over the last 15 years working where we think the growth it anticipated. Now were shifting change about come in some form so i think this is a good way to get involved in the commercial neighborhoods to look at less dramatic a change but supporting the exciting commercial districts. It represents a shift in the departments work and an interesting one thank you. Yeah. As a final note i think its good to look at the best practices if other cities that have neighborhoods similar to the ones we have and the suburbia areas find out why their successful. And i think the idea that many have improvement districts and its a guy thing, of course, its up to the merchant to fund it but when tailor problems that develop like graffiti it is quickly cleaned up and working with the police from the various stations that have authority over the neighborhood commercial districts because well have unfortunate incidents when sometimes people are successful that people come in and vandal