american profit, this is an american city, a great american city. so when you talking about a wholesale withdrawal of governmental support for industrialized cities and, you know, i think that the flag being near the train station is quite appropriate because like i said, this is not just the symbol of detroit play. this is a symbol of america's play, neglect to play lou. ready detroit's recent history might be one a decline, but this was as darrell says, a great american city it was also an instant one a population of 28501900 reached almost 2000000 in 1950, filled by the needs of one industry d industrialization is a common issue in the developed world. my own home town of nottingham in the u. k. went through in the 19 eighties and nineties, but detroit's problem started long before that in creating the motor car for the mass market. detroit. so the seeds of its own decline when the car companies wanted to create new production lines all wanted to teach unionized labor a lesson. they just moved further out of town, taking with them the jobs and th

mexico city used to be a city of lakes. it was like the venice of america, and the aztecs had a very, very sophisticated water management system, but the war with the spanish destroyed everything. they somehow were determined to recreate madrid. so they decided to drain the valley of mexico. so mexico city is now a big flat concrete wilderness, but this land is very flood prone. - and therein lies the irony in all of this. while mexico city is running dry, it also receives an unbelievable amount of rain, making it extremely vulnerable to flooding. picture this: during the rainy season, mexico city gets one and a half times more rain than london does in an entire year. that's a lot of water. but it heads straight into the sewers, and that's not the only problem. mexico city is on a very soft ground, because it was a lake, so the city sinks very quickly. parts of mexico city today sink 40 centimetres a year. really? yeah, which is mind-boggling. and the aquifer which is further down, what we depend on, is just very, very quic

as the uk city of culture.th us all day because we're going to make sure that you not miss a moment of this. coventry. it's been a long time coming. coventry won the honour back in 2017, way back before covid—i9 forced their artistic director to change all of her plans. you see the track, it is down here. we cannot be bringing audiences together in large numbers or even participants, and we have had to think very differently. for a start, what is about to take place on these streets has had to be kept a complete secret. one of you is not from here... to avoid large crowds gathering to watch, surprise events cropping up in neighbourhoods across the whole city. we thought if people can't come in to us, we'll go out to them. it may be that they have popped out for a bit of shopping and they encounter something running past them through the city centre. it may be something turns up on the street. turns up on their street. this cultural event also streaming online and social media for people to enjoy at home. we've

cities are answering our call. earlier this year, 21 city leaders from all over the world signed to the new pact. more will be joining soon. the pact stands ready to work with american cities in the u.s. congress to adjust to the threats that undermine democracies. thank you for your attention. rep. keating: thank you for those very significant statements. we look forward to questions as we go forward. i'll now turn to mr. hrib. you are now recognized for your opening statement. mayor hrib: chairman keating, ranking member fitzpatrick and distinguished members of the subcommittee, it is a great honor that you have invited me to speak at this platform along with my colleagues from central european capitals. i am happy to provide a few remarks on the state of democracy in the czech republic and on the role of cities in defendant global democratic principles and human rights. considering the increasing urbanization worldwide, it is inevitable that cities are important stakeholders in defending freedom and democracy. w

city. many buildings in the old town were destroyed during world war 2 and lay to rebuilt. for instance, the flower, kotia, or church of our lady on the main market square. 515000 inhabitants live in urine drug. the city is especially popular with tourist from the usa. however, in 2020 overnight stays by foreign guests have dropped by almost 70 percent due to travel restrictions outs book is the various 3rd largest city and one of the oldest in germany. originally a roman settlement, many meetings of the imperial diet of the holy roman empire were held here. one of our exposed special features is its water management system developed over many centuries. it includes old hydro electric power stations, canals and fountains that have been unesco. well, heritage sites since 2019 with the various 4th largest city vegans book escape largely unscathed during the 2nd world war. since 2006, it's old town with its 12th century stonebridge and reagans book cathedral has been on unesco, swelled cultura

american profit is an american city, a great american city. so when you're talking about a wholesale withdrawl of governmental support for industrialized cities and you know, i think that the flag being near the train station is quite appropriate because like i said, this is not just a symbol of detroit's place. but this is a symbol of america's play, neglect the place. let me. ready detroit, recent history might be want to decline, but this was, as darrow says, a great american city. it was also an instant, one the population of $285.00 pounds. and in 190-0100 reached almost 2000000 in 950 killed by the needs of one industrial d industrialization is a common issue in the developed world. my own home town of nottingham in the u. k. went through to the 1900 eighty's and ninety's. detroit problem started long before that in creating the motor car for the mass market. detroit, so the siege of its own decline. when the con companies wanted to create new production lines all wanted to teach union ice labor less than they just moved out of town, tak

so place making through cities, i'm being proud of your city and making recognizable architecture. i think it's happening all over the world and losses that does lead to mistakes and, and to inappropriate, tall buildings. there's a lot to be said for the toll building. the tall buildings of new york creates the busy pavement, the busy sidewalks. it's not just tall building, so it's density. and that's why you get such great shops, great sidewalks, great restaurants. do you believe scientists are defined by the buildings around us? well, it's churchill is great curved old and then we build our buildings. now we make our building, then i'll buildings make house. cities can be organic by nature. should they be organic? i believe inevitably change in, ah, in city form and in architectural direction is essentially organic, above the sad cities, all the gracious work of art and their anonymous in a way that i am made collectively which is extraordinarily. i can see the argument for saying are building shapers, but i am unsure that we shape our buildings. it seems to me that money is now

this city is no exception. we need to have an environment in this city where people want to come to work here and be police officers. that doesn't happen without support, and mayor breed, thank you for your support on this. we need the public support, they need my support, and they deserve that if we're asking them to do a very difficult job. so i'm going to go into a little bit more detail before i introduce mary ellen carroll to the microphone. open air drug deals, open air drug dealing, we need consequences. listen, i'm here to talk about what we can control, we, the san francisco police department can control. but when we are using drugs, and some of people that i'm talking about, they have substance addiction issues, they need medical assistance to get through those issues. we have to be compassionate about that, but being compassionate about that doesn't mean we turn a blind's eye to what's happening on the street. the criminal just system has changed. a decade ago, possession of a small amount of heroin

are cities like of clique. what would they look like if bicycles were given the right to flick, we met a german designer who dare to dream. this animation shows what the halston plants and hamburg would look like if all the cars and traffic signs were gone, making room for trees and grass. it could be a square of paradise for cyclists and pedestrians. but it actually looks like this, much to the displeasure of hamburg graphic designer yon kaminsky. he would like to see fundamental changes, which is why he began making animations of how he believed streets should be been on for next week. so again, the project got started with the beginning of the coping. pandemic smirked to miss . i looked around and thought of, i don't want to just sit and wait for the changes we need, like i want to contribute. read august i and as a visual designer, i can change urban spaces up or before and on. young kaminsky thinks gray streets and dreary squares should be transformed around the world. or at least in animations to start li

the city council. that would not only make the program permanent but expanded as well. kron four's rob fladeboe has more. >> al fresco or outdoor dining has been the difference between staying open and closing their doors forever for many restaurants and businesses here in downtown san jose and across town. it's time to make the concept. permanent says the city council's dev davis and i'm pretty sure it's going to pass today. i'm looking forward to making this permanent and. >> and very grateful for city staff working with the knight foundation to help our businesses keep this going at minimum the proposal calls for outdoor dining on private property to continue through 2022. >> san pedro another street would remain closed through june amid plans to expand and make the program permanent citywide. and we've actually put recovery funding towards this to help. >> our businesses transition from temporary to permanent and we look it looks like they're going to be about 2 dozen businesses that want to transi

cities. and everybody has worked in the central cities, will live in some boondocks away, and the cities will be empty at night. and then we just investors and you know, live far away was empty. apartments have no light. it's not a good idea. after all, that's what a city is, it's a creative place. that's why people want to be in a city. they can get jobs, they can go to school, they can better themselves, they can meet other people. so if you segregate you create a horrible dichotomy that will be a failure and will lead to a, a, the end of city new york itself may be changing the original world trade center was an incredibly controversial project . it's detract as accusing it, ignoring the people on the pavement in its race for the scar. the same fighting's critics point to, in today's mega structures is replacement, has consciously taken a very different route involving the public right from the start. my experience at the competition for grounds you are the world trade center, which was a

city. we cannot do that through a 10a or 10b program and i concerned and what i learned from the last hearing, of we may be doing that. so i'm looking forward to getting more information from the police department about how this program has been used and making sure as we move forward if this does move forward that we're not operating a new program in violation of state law. so i will leave it at that. and will be opposing both amendments as well as the ordinance today. thank you. >> president walton: thank you sox so much, supervisor preston. on the motion to amend and duplicate it. >> clerk: on the motion, supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: aye. >> supervisor preston: no. >> supervisor ronen: aye. >> supervisor safai: aye. >> supervisor stefani: aye. >> supervisor walton: no. >> supervisor chan: aye. >> supervisor haney: aye. >> supervisor mandelman: aye. >> supervisor mar: aye. >> supervisor melgar: aye. >> there are nine ayes and two nos with walton and preston in dissent. >> vote

states, 2nd biggest city. many buildings in the old town were destroyed during world war 2 and lay to rebuilt. for instance, the flower, kerisha, or church of our lady on the main market square. 515000 inhabitants live in urine bugs. the city is especially popular with tourists from the usa. however, in 2020 overnight stays by foreign guests have dropped by almost 70 percent. you travel restrictions outs book is the various 3rd largest city and one of the oldest in germany. originally a roman settlement, many meetings of the imperial diet of the holy roman empire were held here. one of our books, special features, visits, water management system, developed over many centuries. it includes old hydro electric power stations, canals and fountains that have been unesco, world heritage sites since 2019 with the various 4th largest city vegans book escape largely unscathed during the 2nd world war. since 2006, it's old town with its 12th century stonebridge and reagans book cathedral has been on unesco, swelled cult

>> president walton: city attorney. >> deputy city attorney, ann pearson. as supervisor preston has shared with this board, the board's authority to enter into these types of contracts for supplemental law, derives from state law and that state law authorizes the board to enter into these contracts with private individuals or private entities to preserve the peace at special events or occurrences that happen on an occasional basis. so the legislation that is before you today was drafted to conform to that law and makes clear that for someone to make a request for these services, they need to be requesting them for a special event or occasional occurrence. so the law doesn't authorize anything more or less than what the state law authorizes. it was drafted to conform to it exactly. if the law is passed, the sheriff will need to develop administrative guidance and will need to draw some lines and figure out how to determine whether a request is precisely for a special event or occasional occurrence or if it goes beyond that and seeks something not authorized

if something happens, getting in or out of the city. that is kind of a lousy way to run a city. that is kind of how we had it. we had an organization that was sort of charged with the health of the world that really sort of blows with the wind where the money is. china was supplying part of the who budget. when government says to it is okay, everything is okay. when there is an outbreak in west africa, for fear of west africa, they do not do find that. that is not a very good thing. if you are charged with doing something technical, we have to do that one thing. something to contrast that with his nato. one mission to prevent arrest. it did not do things for thpolitical that were not y appropriate, technically. what we say is part of what we will need is to take these real scientificic questions, how do u prevent world pandemic? and really turn them into true scientific questions and say we will develop what we need to. somewhere else in the back office, dealing with all the politics of how you deal with these upset countries. but those two cannot be together because it just doe

you're going to continue to do work in the city and i know the city is not without its challenges. and i hope that you see how all of you working together, how we are able to accomplish so much more than working apart. so much compromise has been made to get us to this point and my hope is that this is the start of what can be transformative about this program so that it doesn't depend on who's the mayor, who's the supervisor? but we have a structure now in place to allow for consistent increases in the threshold to make it easier for someone to make it into the program and succeed in the program in the first place. so i'm really excited about the future of this. [ applause ] and the last thing i'll say before i turn it over to the president of the board of supervisors shaman walton is, you know, getting an opportunity like this i know has been amazing for you for so many and what i really love about miguel is the conversations we have and the push he has not just to make his company a success, but how he wants other companies in the program and how he has given back he's provided

>> president walton: city attorney. >> deputy city attorney, ann pearson. as supervisor preston has shared with this board, the board's authority to enter into these types of contracts for supplemental law, derives from state law and that state law authorizes the board to enter into these contracts with private individuals or private entities to preserve the peace at special events or occurrences that happen on an occasional basis. so the legislation that is before you today was drafted to conform to that law and makes clear that for someone to make a request for these services, they need to be requesting them for a special event or occasional occurrence. so the law doesn't authorize anything more or less than what the state law authorizes. it was drafted to conform to it exactly. if the law is passed, the sheriff will need to develop administrative guidance and will need to draw some lines and figure out how to determine whether a request is precisely for a special event or occasional occurrence or if it goes beyond that and seeks something not authorized

we have re-opened the city. schools are back in session and we resume so many of these activities that make us feel whole again and it really is because of you. the results show for instance with vaccines, our vaccination rates. our vaccinations among people of color are highest in the nation and lead our vaccination rates in the city. and it's no accident. it's because of your work that vaccines and testing are readily available. we have 100 vaccine sites. and san franciscans are within a 10 minute walk of a site and that's why we managed to get 80% of our eligible population. and i was just talking to several of you before the event, needles are going to kids' arms. they're getting the shot and we're doing over a 1,000 a day great progress. now, that is one thing, but i think one of the key things in our responses is they're only one thing. they are so important. they're key to getting out of this pandemic, but there's so many other key issues that are of importance for us to address. the wide ranging emotiona

city policy has done this to us. people like mayor lee inviting all the dot-com, and giving all of them -- and the techies the tax breaks. before them, we had principals and banking, and that was one of the big majority of employers. we'll never be able to catch up with providing housing for people who are poor when you attract in that kind of business. you just have to get rid of them as much as possible. when the dot-com left, we just breathed a sigh of relief because the traffic disappeared. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. this is peter cohen from the council of community housing organization. thank you for having this -- really, this continuation hearing from november 8, when you focused on the recently completed housing our workers project. our organization is very honored to work with the housing council and jobs for justice to do. appreciate the planning department producing the first jobs fit report for san francisco. we look forward to fine-tuning the methodology. t

their aspirations for the future of the city. # city of mine, my flows below...e planted by a man named coffa, by the settlement when it was first built up by the river, so people all around could see where the settlement was and come to it with ease, and "coffa's tree" over the years apparently became "coventry. " the banners on the approaches are designed by local schoolchildren, reflecting the themes of today's event. three of them, daniel, frankie and christian, along with teacher nina, are from the coventry extended learning centre, a pupil referral unit for children struggling in mainstream education. they helped design the banner on the theme of socialjustice. i drew a mouth to project the way everybody should have the freedom of speech. a lot of our students have come here because they have been either moved or permanently excluded. the mainstream has not worked with them for whatever reason. for them to come here and be part of the banner creation is great pride for me, for them, and for their parents. because they had such a difficultjourney, butjust to

the city centre.y to people, oh, yeah, there's a river that runs through coventry and people would say they've never seen one. so a group of young people follow that journey of the river, having encountered pauline singing her song on the bridge. starring in a film of the river runners' journey are two dancers, childhood friends nancy and louis. good? we met at school, it was the induction day, so we were in year 6, maybe 10 or 11 years old at this point. by the end of the day, i asked her to be my girlfriend. my reply was, "i'll tell you in september." and i literally said it like that — "septemba"! she walked out of the gate and looked over her shoulder, i had to wait a whole summer to find the answer, and it was worth it because i got a yes. i grew up born and bred in coventry, the city of villains, yeah! and ijust knew i wanted more, i knew there was a greater calling and there was a purpose for me out there, and i've come across dancing on the tv and i wasn't exposed to these kind of things, it w

we are not going to let what others try to do to our city define who we are as a city. we are better than this. the reason why you see now especially during the holiday season a significant increase in police and ambassadors and other things because we are going to make sure we do everything we can to keep our city safe. the people, employees, merchants and residents alike. i want to thank the san francisco police department for being here with us today. i saw them late hours on chestnut street on saturday night. they were working. they weren't out hanging out afternoon drinking. they were working. we are grateful for their service and grateful for everything that they have done to serve and protect the city. with that i want to take the opportunity to just again thank all of you for being here. happy thanksgiving. with that please help me welcome our executive director of the san francisco chamber of commerce, rodney fong. >> don't go too far. a little bird told me one of your favorite candles is in here. it is a tough year for you. i want to thank you for all of the w

think of the orange riots. 19th century city is a very, very violent city. the things that we've seen in recent years, this past year or so, are nothing compared to what was a fairly regular occurrence in the 19th century and often associated with voting. these tactics, as well as tammany's irish catholic constituency, raised suspicions about tweed long before the charges of graft and embezzlement were leveled in 1871. so again, tweed's critics and the critics of this urban political culture had their suspicions all along, suspicions rooted in the fact that this urban political culture was catholic and was irish and was immigrant. all that said, the prejudices brought to the case, the charges, in fact, were true. tweed had spent several decades working his way up the tammany ladder. by the late 1860s, he was able to engineer a restructuring of new york city politics that consolidated all the real power in the hands of those four people who made up the tweed ring. people that were largely unelected. the mayor, of course, would be elected. how do they have all

i will defer to the city attorney. i hear you that hotel is defined as a tourist defined in 102 and residential hotel is defined. that might not be clear to the reader in these sections. let me look it up real quick. >> while we do that. i am waiting for the city attorney. why don't we pause on this item. there she is. >> hello. >> i believe we just got confirmation the committee is looking at the current be draft. the amendments we are looking at are substantive. since we know we have substantive amendments before us that gives us time to work out the right language for the concept that supervisor peskin proposed so we are not stepping on defined terms in the planning code. it does sound like we have a proposal from planning staff that would probably work. we want to make sure we are not usurping terms that have other meanings in the planning code. >> supervisor preston: i assume that would not be a substantive thing for next week? >> it is not different from the language in there. using different words to mean the sa

biggest city. many buildings in the old town were destroyed during world war 2 and lay to rebuilt. for instance, the flower, kotia, or church of our lady on the main market square 515000 inhabitants live in urine bugs. the city is especially popular with tourist from the usa. however, in 2020 overnight stays by foreign guests have dropped by almost 70 percent due to travel restrictions outs book is the various 3rd largest city and one of the oldest in germany. originally a roman settlement, many meetings of the imperial diet of the holy roman empire were held here. one of our exposed special features is its water management system developed over many centuries. it includes old hydro electric power stations, canals and fountains that have been unesco. well, heritage sites since 2019 with the various 4th largest cities, akins book, escaped largely unscathed during the 2nd world war. since 2006, it's old town with its 12th century stonebridge and reagans book cathedral has been on unesco, swelled cult

lower and middle income all over the city.ness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪♪♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be b

economic recovery for our city. >> when you think about the venues for events in the city, we're talking. some have been able to come back adaptively over the last year and have been able to be shape shifters in this pandemic, and that's exciting to see, but i'm really looking forward to the day when events and venues can reopen and help drive the recovery here in san francisco. >> they have done a study that says for every dollar of ticket sales done in this city, $12 goes to neighboring businesses. from all of our vendors to the restaurants that are next to our ven sues and just so many other things that you can think of, all of which have been so negatively affected by covid. for this industry to fail is unthinkable on so many levels. it's unheard of, like, san francisco without its music scene would be a terribly dismal place. >> i don't know that this needs to be arrest -- that there needs to be art welfare for artists. we just need to live and pay for our food, and things will take care of themselves. i think that that's not the given situation. what san francisco could do that the

, as a major city, that's a very dense city, we know there are problems and challenges we have to face, but i've got to say, i'm so very proud and grateful to all of our public safety officials who are doing the work on the ground to try and keep people safe. i'm grateful to them for showing up and despite dealing with some of the most challenging of circumstances every single day, they still show up. so when you see our firefighters, our police officers, our paramedics, anyone wearing a city uniform in any way, just give them a smile and thank them for their service because they are doing the hard work day in and day out to deal with the challenges that exist in this city. so thank you again everyone for being here. we celebrate and we're grateful to our street crisis response team. we're grateful to our police officers and our firefighters and our department of public health officials, our doctors, our nurses, our clinicians. all of the people who were extraordinary and helped us through this pandemic. we are so fortunate to have so many extraordinary public servants in this city. an

or you can send physical letters to city hall. that completes initial comments. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. young. can you please read the first item. >> clerk: yes. item 1, a hearing to appoint a member to the police commission. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on the item call 415-655-0001. the meeting id is 2480 307 9124. then press pound and pound again. if you haven't done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. as you will recall, we heard this item last week, there were originally five applicants, one of the applicants withdrew prior to the hearing last week. we heard from the four applicants, i want to thank all four for their willingness to serve. and i don't want to put words in the mouth of the committee, but i think we were particularly impressed by two of the applicants and continue the item for one week and it is scheduled as a committee report in the intervening week, i believe we have gotten some letters of support, particularly for jesus gabriel yanez

deference is not give ton the city. we know that the state and housing department is investigating the city's decision here. [bell ringing] >> we don't want to interrupt anyone this evening, but we are setting the timer for two minutes. >> good evening. i wanted to calls at mayor reiterates that the police might be a helpful to our homeless and fentanyl crisis in the tenderloin. the iron law of prohibition. it's described as the cardinal rule of prohibition. tonight i want to emphasize that two years ago we had a heroin problem. today we have a fentanyl problem. this is predicted previous. it's based on the -- fentanyl, because those more potent forms offer efficiency. economists write that the iron law of prohibition undermines the argument in favor of prohibition. because the higher potentcy forms are less safe for the consumer. we can see this today in our teenager's use of alcohol, where in the united states they use vodka and -- this is causing violence on our streets. this situation wouldn't exist if it weren't fo

the city of hamilton, ontario is a city with proud, working-class roots. for generations, it's been known as "steel town." but this city has suffered from economic decline and deindustrialization, like so many cities in the region and across north america. hamilton is desperately trying to figure out how to adapt, and how, perhaps, to reinvent itself. this is also a medium-sized city, one living in the shadow of a loud, noisy neighbor. that's toronto in the distance, across the lake. is there a greater sense of community, cohesion and urbanism in a city this size? we all know where steel town came from, but man, i want to figure out where steel town is headed. until now, the life-sized city has focussed on major urban centres: paris, tokyo, mexico city, bangkok. but that raised a question: what about all the mid-sized cities around the world? what about their reality? well, like in many places, hamilton's steel and manufacturing industry boomed between the industrial revolution and the late 20th century. and i mean really boomed. from appliances to cars to

what lies ahead for each is greenest city. this project, for instance, when it's fully grown, will have 11 times aside area as green area. so why go to all this extra effort to, to swadell you buildings in plants, a huge one in hot climate light. singapore is that plants are the only thing that when the sunlight falls on it, they don't heat up. they actually take that energy and use it for their chemical processes, of grueling carbohydrates and things. so the calculation for singapore, for instance, is that before the city was built, singapore was 5 degrees cooler. and all that heat ends up being converted into fossil fuel use as people use air conditioners to cool the spice, and throw even more heat out into the city. if substantial plant covered even reducing a pull by 2 or 3 degrees celsius, the energy saving for the entire country would be, you know, in the billions of dollars of use. a lot of the argument, you have the also much of the cities do you know it doesn't matter. one or 2 buildings? what difference can i? but if

represents most city department heads and high level city managers. hadn't heard any feedback from n.e.a. or any official since then. that was about 3.5 weeks ago. we believed the process was completed. that's why we agendized for you today, however, late yesterday, we discovered that the n.e.a. asked that the process be continued, so we will be meeting with n.e.a. next week, so that's why we're asking that you wait until january, and obviously, you're on the same page. you'd like that to continue, as well, so that's great, and i wanted to make sure that you were aware of that development, as well. that concludes what i wanted to present to you, and i'm glad to answer any questions that you might have. >> president lee: thank you, mr. ford. do we have any comments, fellow commissioners? otherwise, we'll open it up to public comment. commissioner bush? >> commissioner bush: thank you for the presentation, mr. ford. it was very detailed and informative. i wonder if you could provide us with a summary of the comments that you got back of the 45 departmen

just here in new york city. we're on 42nd street, and i want to give you a sense of how much of an urgency there is for people to get tested. this is just one of the testing sites here on 42nd street in midtown manhattan. you can see a couple of dozen people there waiting about a dozen or so. but if you turn around this way, i want to show you something else as we come up the 42nd street here, you'll see as we get closer, there is another testing site as well. just a block away with even more people waiting to get tested. there is a shortage of tests here in new york city and new york state there is around the nation, quite frankly. but particularly here in new york city, we've seen long lines like this of people wanting to get tested. especially now, given that busy holiday travel season and given how this really is the epicenter here in new york city. the problem is there not enough test sites, because many of them work blows down this year. when people thought that this pandemic was over here in new york city

limits -- our city limits. i voted in support of establishing the housing stability fund. that's why i also pushed for united stephenson street that would have pushed for more housing than this item was required to preserve. but this portion of the budget requires both the mayor and the board to agree. we know we cannot prevent the mayor from appropriating these funds and she cannot stop us from -- i also want to state for the record that the small sites program is not simply suffering because it is underfunded, it is in desperate need, as we know, of meaningful reforms, and it is desperately understaffed. before we refund this program, we need to know why it hasn't worked for acquisition citywide, and i need to work on that, and it sounds like many supervisors have been working on that. since 2001, we have not been abled to rehab a small site for permanent affordable housing. it is not for lack of will, it is because for the reasons that have been mentioned in this chamber today. in the past seven years, since

the city's public asset. the measure will also provide checks and balances and transparency for all city departments sharing appointments to charter commissions between the mayor and the board of supervisors. and i also want to take this opportunity to thank amy, you know, and i know that my team has always been super grateful to her and just her experience. i know that we came back when we were co-sponsoring the inclusionary housing mandates with supervisor ronen's office and amy had that brilliant one pager. it explained it all. it's hard to find people who are so brilliant and so kind and have such a strong moral compass on doing the right thing. we're going to miss amy as well. of course, i wanted to join in memoriam for judge harry lowe. i met him when i was a young aide working for attorney kamala harris and then he already retired, but still very much a strong figure among the chinese american community. and we always look to him for his leadership, for his guidance. i know that young lawyers that work

no account tells of this city. no european, no spanish conquistador ever found the way through the wilderness of the obama valley. on the july day in 1911, the u. s. archaeologist and historian, hiram bingham, accompanied by a native guide, was the 1st to make his way along overgrown incur paths. skirting the steep mountain slopes. at the top, he discovered the ruins of a long, deserted city. overgrown by the jungle. was this long lost vehicle number? where the incas had hidden their gold from the spanish invaders, not a single goal artifact has ever been found. no one knows who lived here, nor why the city was abandoned. wolfing is suited the city, which according to bingham, was known as much u, p. t. u old mountain was built in the mid 15th century during the heyday of the inca culture and the inca empire. much you, pete, you was planned down to the smallest detail. the architecture mirrors the 3 tiers of society. on one side of the houses of the nobility with the palace and the temples, and on the other, beyond