And the public, city hall is closed. This precaution is being taken pursuant to the local, state orders. Commission meetings will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the same extent as they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 4156550001. Again, its 4156550001, meeting id 146 7977410. Then press pound and pound again. Then you will hear the meeting discussions which will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email myself, alisa. Somera sfgov. Com. Madam chair, that
Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members
Thank you. Its my pleasure to be here, and i just want you to know that ill be here to support you in each and every neighborhood, in each of the districts, in each of the schools. So while im here, doing everything i can do to make the city better. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much, aleric. It will be a great pleasure, working with you in our streets and our communities. So now, in celebration of our communities, we want to welcome to the stage our come back neighborhood and Community Challenge grant winners. The come back neighborhood award is given to the neighborhood that has really turn things around for its residence through collective problem solving and leadership, and this years winner is bayview hillcandlestick point. The Bayview Neighborhood Association has their negotiations with lennar and five point have led to cleaner air and reduced Traffic Congestion in the neighborhood. And joining us today is their board of directors. All right. Fantastic. I wanted to ask you j
Three disasters in two weeks. We are checking Hurricane Irma in the caribbean as aftershocks from a major earthquake rattled mexico. Texas tries to dry out after harvey. Those disasters have killed more than 150 people. That evening. We start with Hurricane Irma. It should reach the florida keys about 1 am sunday. Tonight more than 5 1 2 Million People have been told to evacuate. The largest evacuation in the states history. It has strengthened to a category 5 hurricane. The projected path shifting to the west. Florida is anticipating a direct hit. The head of power in light expects the storm to knock out power to as many as 9 million customers. It could last for weeks. The death toll from irma in the caribbean is 22. Another power for hurricane powerful hurricane josi is moving in. Chief meteorologist with the ship to the west and the forecast track. Certainly a big change. It is back to a credit core 5. It is brushing against cuba. Category 5. That i wall touching could help to weake
Storm. But we are just a few hours from the big time rains. Youre right. Giving you a live look at key west where the rain bands are already moving over florida and the winds are beginning to pick up. It is skirting right loopg the coast along the coast line of cuba. It has weakened a little bit with winds sustained at 130 miles an hour with a westerly movement at about 12 miles an hour. Over the next 24 hours as it gets back over the warm ocean water, it is expected to intensify once again. We are looking at a bunch of adviseries in place. Here is a look at the path. It shifted a little east and then is was right smack along the straight of the peninsula and now it is a little west. Now the models indicate it will be on the west edge of florida as it moves ashore. As far as the timing on this, hopefully it will not gain much strength but it is expected to come on shore as a category 4 as early at 2 tomorrow morning. It could be delaid by just a little bit and it will workets way up to