. >> first i would like to recognize and thank our vice chair evans for stepping in on my behalf while absent for the last two months. thank you for your thoughts and concerns of mine being away, i'm back. i'm happy to be back and ready to get to work. and also want to make sure that we want to acknowledge, there is a lot that has taken place in the last 24 hours and it's our responsibility to stay focus on the task at hand and certainly hope that we take this as a way to work harder together and so, i just hope that you are well and i hope the country, the nation, the city our communities are well as well. okay. this places us on the adoption item number 5, the adoption of our special meeting, october 10, 2024. are there any comments or questions regarding the october 10, 2024 meeting? >> i motion to approve the minutes. >> second. >> it's been motioned and properly second. before we begin our vote, i just want to open up the opportunity for public comment. any members who wish to make public comment regarding our adoption of october 10, meeting minutes? i see there is no members in-p

we're ready for the roll call. >> chair butler. >> aye. >> vice chair evans. >> aye. >> commissionerommissioner dufty. >> aye. >> motion passed. >> so glad, we're going to improve these elevators. >> whoo-hoo. >> okay, let's move on to our general public comment. so this is for items that are don't appear on our agenda that members of the public would like to comment on and so each person will have about 3 minutes to make comments. thank you. >> speaker: hi i'm susan sutter home i'm a legacy senior tenant of the gra na at that hotel. i'm here to convince you to make us a step up senior housing project perhaps with some ab stinence, the best you can go through on the qualities. we've been going through renovation for three years and it's been inconvenient but it's going to be worth it. a building that already had a lot of charm is going to have 213 units renovated, repainted, beautiful. when i first moved in 15 years ago, it was a little run down. now the elevators work, and the contract according to the for man is going to be over the 31 of december, it's been extended i believe in t

chair butler is excuses and. evans. >> present. >> commissioner albright. >> present. >> commissioner williams. >> present. >> commissioner dufty excused. commissioner gerrero. >> present. >> commissioner laguana. >> i think he is present. >> the upon san francisco department of homelessness executive director mcfadden is present. we have a quorum. item 3 announcement of sounds producing device the use of cell phones and electronics are prohibited. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of persons responsible for ringing or use of cell phones. thank you. item 4, announcements. >> could i note that vice chair that commissioner laguana is present. >> check, check, check. i'm here. >> thank you. >> welcome happy to have a good and productive meeting today. hope everybody enjoyed the holiday break. i wanted to just share one item this i read over the holidays. i thought was really an extraordinary read. you might also enjoy. the esquire magazine an article, my life as a homeless man in america. extraordinary

evans. fed chair jay powell is expected to take the stage with andrew ross sorkin, that will start a little later this hour. we'll bring it you live. andrew has a tendency to get people to talk. remember when he asked musk about advertisers at deal bok last year? stick around, we hope to get headlines. speaking of the fed, one of our guests argues there's no reason to continue cutting. another says if they pause, things could get volatile in markets. both are here to make their case. movement on the housing front. we have the latest on why housing could become a key issue on the trump and the gop. how is it looking? >> another day, another set of record highs. that's how things are looking. green across the board for the major indices as you can see behind me here. notably, for the s&p 500 and the nasdaq composite, both of these indices hit record intraday levels in trading and we are right near session highs for the market. the dow industrials, 44,891, up 1/2 of 1%. i'll get to the reason why, it's salesforce, but i'll give you more details in a bit. up 185 points, 1/2% away from record hi

as co-founder and co-chair of the american 250 caucus along with my co-chairs, mr. evans and salazar, it is an honor to see this lem haitian come forward today as just one one small part of our nation's 250 anniversary celebration. this bill would authorize the architect of the capitol to create the time capsule and have it buried on the west lawn to remain sealed until july 2276, the nation's 500th anniversary. the contents will include items that we want important legislation -- that represent important legislation, a message from the 119th congress to the 2 44th congress and other items that we frequent our history. no one here today will see it as has been said, but to be redundant, an old proverb goes, a society grows great when the old plant trees who shade never sit in. this body does its work when we don't seek fame or followers, renown or retweets, but rather, when we work with the distant generations of americans for whom our names will be -- mere footnotes and enjoy the fruits of our work today. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore:

chairs, jayapal, beatty, and horsford, for leading our calk justice with insight and openness. and to your staff but not limited to vincent evans and michael darner, thank you. to the late congresswoman sheila jackson lee to her mentorship and commitment to securing justice for black communities, particularly in the form of reparations. i will forever honor memory. to senator bernie sanders, thank for you your leadership and unwavering consistency. if we can say anything, we can say consistency. thank you for being a movement-builder and an inspiration. to senator elizabeth warren, thank you for being a model for delivering for communities, for stepping out and embracing issues that help everyday people and for embracing me during the action on our eviction moratorium. senator markey, you've been a partner in sentimental justice and protecting front line communities. i'm proud our first bicameral bill together made it into law to help prioritize resources for communities in st. louis. and i'm so grateful and so honored to have the greatest group of friends within these walls who are anything but silent. rashida, ianna, jamal, a

chairs, jayapal, beatty, and horsford, for leading our calk justice with insight and openness. and to your staff but not limited to vincent evans and michael darner, thank you. to the late congresswoman sheila jackson lee to her mentorship and commitment to securing justice for black communities, particularly in the form of reparations. i will forever honor memory. to senator bernie sanders, thank for you your leadership and unwavering consistency. if we can say anything, we can say consistency. thank you for being a movement-builder and an inspiration. to senator elizabeth warren, thank you for being a model for delivering for communities, for stepping out and embracing issues that help everyday people and for embracing me during the action on our eviction moratorium. senator markey, you've been a partner in sentimental justice and protecting front line communities. i'm proud our first bicameral bill together made it into law to help prioritize resources for communities in st. louis. and i'm so grateful and so honored to have the greatest group of friends within these walls who are anything but silent. rashida, ianna, jamal, a

especially my vice chair on appropriations, senator collins, who's been a critical partner, our house counterparts, congress congresswoman delauro and cole. also all of our staff, especially evan schatz, our staff director, who worked so hard around the clock to pull together not just the disaster relief, but so many other critical funding packages and proposals over the last two years i've been chair of the appropriations committee. the work is never easy, and i'm incredibly grateful to our entire team and to all of our colleagues who've been working so hard. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. ms. collins: madam president. the presiding officer: the senior senator from maine. ms. collins: madam president, i rise to urge passage of the american relief act. this bill will avert a costly government shutdown, although it is after midnight, we are going to avert it. it will deliver much needed assistance to individuals, small businesses, and communities working to rebuild and repair in the wake of natural disasters. it pro veetids much -- provides much needed aid to our farmers across the country who have been hit by a tidal wave of harmful economic conditions. i want

chairs, jayapal, beatty, and horsford, for leading our calk justice with insight and openness. and to your staff but not limited to vincent evans and michael darner, thank you. to the late congresswoman sheila jackson lee to her mentorship and commitment to securing justice for black communities, particularly in the form of reparations. i will forever honor memory. to senator bernie sanders, thank for you your leadership and unwavering consistency. if we can say anything, we can say consistency. thank you for being a movement-builder and an inspiration. to senator elizabeth warren, thank you for being a model for delivering for communities, for stepping out and embracing issues that help everyday people and for embracing me during the action on our eviction moratorium. senator markey, you've been a partner in sentimental justice and protecting front line communities. i'm proud our first bicameral bill together made it into law to help prioritize resources for communities in st. louis. and i'm so grateful and so honored to have the greatest group of friends within these walls who are anything but silent. rashida, ianna, jamal, a

i'm simon evans, joined by josh howie and the fresh faced new arrival already foul mouthed archie manners and singing archie's chairew chair. it's all part of the humiliation process. >> it's like i'm being pranked. >> it's like i'm being pranked. >> it's like i'm being pranked. >> it's the broadcasting equivalent of beasting familiarwith. anyway, we have deportations now ticking up under labour. that's encouraging, you might think. but the guardian are not happy. >> yes. this is this is very exciting news for labour. less exciting news for labour. less exciting news for asylum seekers. 13,500 of them have been deported. most of these are voluntary. so there are people who have been incentivised by a £3,000 prepaid card when they land back where they came from. oh, okay. so that's the bit they don't tell you quite so much about. most are going back to brazil, which seems to me i wouldn't leave brazil. frankly, it's a much nicer place than here, and it sounds like a big number, but 13,500 since labour got in. it's actually only the capacity of oldham athletic's football stadium. so it's not you know, it's not that m