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Australian singer helen reddy won a grammy for her 1972 feminist anthem, i am woman. This morning, her family says in a statement, reddy has passed away at a celebrity care home in los angeles where shes been living with dementia. Helen reddy was 78 years old. Turning now to the race for a vaccine against covid19 and a promising now study about one of the potential vaccines in development. Dr. Ali, thank you for joining us. A new study is out this morning on one of the potential covid19 vaccines and how effective it could be for older people. What are you hearing . This is a very good question...

Good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, october 19th, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor peskin joined by Committee Member dean preston and soontobe joined by vicechair supervisor safai. Our court is miss erika major. Do you have any announcements, ms. Major . Due to the covid19 health emergency, and to protect Board Members the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to state and fed...

Mr. Secretary, please call the roll. [laughter]. Thank you, madame chair. Prior to calling roll, i would like to note that julie chang is sitting in as director. With that i will now proceed to call roll. Directors, please respond when i call your name. Chang present. E. Forbes present. M. Hursh present. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Secretary directors, we have a quorum. Chair sesay and secretary, if i may just a point of clarification, this is a regular meeting, not a special meeting, just a point of clarification for the record. Chair ses...

Familiar, that is because you have been asked to vote on Something Like this before, rent control is back on the ballot. This year, in the form of prop 21. Proposition 21 gives cities the ability to expand rent control, it would apply to housing more than 15 years old, it could also be applied to Single Family homes or condos if the owner has more than two per properties. Proposition 21 is a referendum on costa hawkins, 1995 law that drastically limit each states ability to enact rent control. Voters have the option to make changes to this back in 2018, with proposition 10. But that did not pa...

Pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being wiped out. As a japanese american im concerned about Small Businesses facing eviction in japan town. If these businesses fail, it opens the door to property being sold to developers. They may transform the property and change the charter of japan town, similar to what happened to the International Hotel property in malil a town where the hilton hotel now stands. Please support these ordinance to give Small Businesses a fighting chance to survive and preserve our communities of color. Thank you. Thank you for your com...