Historically black sites helped to tell the story of africanamerican migration. They argue for additional efforts and resources to preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life in history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and histories 104th annual conference. How the National Park service tells the story of black migrations. My name is madeleine, and im the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks Conservation Association. Is this better . Sorr sorry about that. On behalf of theresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks Conservation Association, weve been a powerful, independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through our nationwide network of offices and with our more
Are you prepared to make your presentation . Sorry. I want to share my screen with your power point presentation. Youll have five minutes. Ill let you know when your presentation is up. Can everybody see this . Unfortunately, we cant, stephanie. Okay. If there are members of the public who are interest logos ed inspeaking on this matter s star three. Thank you, stephanie. The slides are up. Im an architect with the department of public works. Weve had had five approvals to date. Specific Design Review concepts through phase three. A review committee back in april. We have a lot of slides. Im going to go fast. This is the original building exterior. A site entry to the left. Next slide. The original reading room is shown here. Thats the main stair that was demolishedemolished. Showing architectural elements for the main stair and main entrance. This is the 1997 floorplan that shows the loss of the features. Buildings on bar bartlett. This is a diagram showing the relationship to the pro
Be turned around within 72 hours but were seeing back ups especially with our provider labs and some of our own labs within the city. We are backing up seven days, ten days at this point. Thats something were seeing across the state and across the country. thank you director. Thank you madam mayor and dr. C olfax for your time. Any followup questions or questions after this meeting can be directed to dem press at sf dot org. Thank you for your time and that concludes todays press conference. Concludes todays press good afternoon welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee San Francisco board of supervisors for today monday july 20th. Im the chair of the Committee Supervisor aaron peskin joined by supervisor ahsha safai and dean preston and joined by colleague supervisor Hillary Ronen. Do you have any announcements . Due to the covid19 emergency to protect board members, City Employees and public, board of supervisors legislative chamber remain closed. Committee members will at
Were really not too far off that 25 , if we look at it 10 years from now. Thank you very much. Thank you, now were going to open this up for Public Comment. Every member of the public will have two minutes to speak. Yes, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1463082077. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. We currently have 20 people lined up to speak at this time. May we have the first caller . Yes, i will unmute the first caller. Thank you chair ronen and Committee Members. This is doug on behalf of Teamsters Joint Council 7. Were also members of the food chain workers alliance. I want to thank supervisor fewer for the shoutout and her leadership. I feel so proud when i think of how far we come since that fir
But think about to when johnson pivska visited the class and we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story . Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted this tree because it was her favorite tree. And he brought the seeds from the hermitage in tennessee and do you remember what jonathan told us . He said there isnt any contemporary evidence, Andrew Jackson never mentions planting a tree, theres nothing in newspapers so it seems like this is a story that has these romantic origins and its continued to grow from that ever since. So this is actually first known exterior photograph of the white house taken by a welsh born photographer named john plume jr. In january 1846. So if youre looking at the white house, this is 1846, so in theory jackson planted his tree already, right . But i dont see a magnolia anywhere. So this also bolsters the case that perhaps the magnolia came a little bit later than people think. Heres an outdoor shot by lewis walt