And indoors the pastor says. The inside of the chapel in san jose is for many, a place to find peace. One reason 700 parishioners keep attending even as the church defies the Public Health order. It breaks my heart, frankly. There are a lot of people who need church. The pas tore says thats why hes continued unrestricted Indoor Services since may. Despite ten county violation notices and 350,000 in fines. The county currently allows places of worship to operate at 25 capacity or up to 100 people tot total. People are hurting. People are really hurting. We see it every week. Our job, my job, im called to help those people that are hurting. Flanked shoulder to shoulder by churches statewide. Only one wearing a mask. The group denounced the plans to seek a restraining order on Indoor Services there. That restraining order will, if it succeeds, place this church in a position where they have to decide are we going to bow down to cesar or obey god. The group is not against masks, social dis
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Committee meetings. Going forward Public Comment will be taken in person with Remote Access only provided for those who require ada accommodation. Public comment will be taken on each item. When your item comes up and Public Comment is called, please line along the curtain to your right, my left. You may submit Public Comment in writing email to myself, the Budget Finance Committee clerk at brent. Julipa sfgov. Org. If you submit via email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the file. You may also send to city hall, 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 44, San Francisco california 94102. For those in attenance during the meeting please make sure silence cell phones and Electronic Devices and should you have documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to myself the clerk. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor agenda of october 31, unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Before we call the items and go forward with the a
Aye. The minutes are approves. Call the Consent Agenda items 59. Item 59 the Consent Agenda. Staff is in the planning on to present on these but available for questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Moved by melgar and seconded by walton we can take that same house same call without objection the motion passes. Madam clerk, item 10. Item 10 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency fleet electrification update report this is an information item. And we have bonnie gene von crow. Sfmta building Progress Public Affairs manager. Such a title. Good morning. Im bonnie von crow, Public Affairs manager im theme proviedz an update on the paratransit electrification process. Our paratransit fleet is a van and taxi program. For people with disabilities that are unable to take our muni service. Unlike municipal theruns on fixed routes paratransit is a door to door program. We have been provideing for 40 plus years last year served approximately 500,000 trips per
Encampments. Weve been seeing this across college campuses. Union members are demanding, among other things, amnesty for all the students and faculty who have been arrested or facing disciplinary action. Uc santa cruz strike will be the first of several strikes across the campuses. University leaders have filed an unfair labor practice charge. We have developing news on the death of irans president , who was killed in a Helicopter Crash today in the bay area, former House Speaker nancy pelosi, reacting to that crash. It happened yesterday in a mountainous area of northwest iran, the president , the countrys foreign minister and six others were also killed. Irans state media says president Ebrahim Raisi and the group were returning from an event at the countrys border with azerbaijan, when the helicopter experienced technical failures in the thick, foggy weather conditions. I join our president and state department extending condolences to the families and those affected by the crash. I