College athletes ability to earn money from endorsements. They spoke at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing. Good morning, everyone. The committee the subcommittee will come to order. Were honored to have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens s
Officials, such as assessor howard chu, and ta collector, ad norman yee and supervisor stefani and supervisor fewer, we are so excited to get this done together. Every 10 years the federal government puts together a census to count everyone and to make critical decisions about our future. Yet the hard work happens in our local communities right here on the ground. This time we know that it will be harder because the census is digital. And so we must bridge that digital divide. Some people discrust government, distrust government, so we must work with organizations such as the institute and selfhelp for the elderly to educate them and inform the community on why it matters that we get counted. Lets face it, San Franciscoians, many of us live in apartments and s. R. O. S. And folks are just plain busy and may not get around to being counted. So we have to remind them why it matters to be counted in this census. Mayor breed and Speaker Pelosi are here today because they know just how impo
All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspect
Have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens soccer team won their first title last year. In my hometown of Manhattan College football at kansas staet university and a legacy continued by the current coach and Athletic Director gene taylor and who c
Does anybody have anything to say . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is number two, approval of the minutes for december 17, 2019. We will need a motion to approve. I move to approve second. Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner perez [roll call] all right. The Meeting Minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from our executive director. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Its been since november since ive seen you all in this setting. So this is fun to be back. Happy new year. And i wanted to take a moment and thank Senior Analyst rice, dylan, just for being Commission Secretary tonight while crystal is on a welldeserved vacation. My only update for you all this evening is relative to new years eve. This is one of our biggest evenings of the year that we prepare for and we provide information to all of the other city agencies for Situational Awareness abo