we could do that with m.t.a., dpw, planning. >> i have two quick thoughts. i think to me it sounds like that might be a good thing to spend time talking about in the retreat. who do we know that we could propose to be filling the seats? that might be a good use of our time because we are only on this commission. there are a lot of commissions that could use a small business voice. if we can't get the commissions to change the structure to require a small business sheet. in the short term it might be good for the higher profile commission to utilize our collective effort to advocate for whoever fills that vacancy to be a small business owner. if there is a vacancy on the m.t.a. board or planning commission maybe we can propose candidates in the small business committee to get it done. >> they are unpaid appointmen appointmentsiappointments,like s extraordinary. it attracts folk with no time to run a business on the side. >> there are examples. elgar runs a large organization and is president of the planning commission. it makes it harder. there are people tha

would be closer to at least 50 or one bathroom per 50 people and hopefully with the support of dpw, we can see a baseline standard for access that people have to critical sanitation hygiene. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor han earthquakes. ey. >> supervisor mamdleman. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i'm urging the united states food is drug administration to end the federal ban on blood by gay men and women. this allows men to have sex with men to donate blood without restrictions and this is all the more unacceptable to blood banks across the country with a severe blood shortage as a result of the covid-19 pandemic and the resulting shall take place with the these orders. (inaudible). >> they were requesting the elimination of this band and there were 17 u.s. senators, including kamala harris, tammy baldwin and amy klobuchar and corey booker pai (inaudible). >> i hope this body will join them where the blood donations are desperately needed. there are two bills for residential and commercial and i want to thank supervisor walton and assembly bill 828 by phil c

also to the dpw workers and general service workers and everyone else who helped matt put this together, thank you. thank you, thank you. and now to the other shoutout, to the volunteers. to the volunteers that came here today, that came here yesterday, that came here the day before to help us build this village. it shows you what this county is made of. it shows you what the state is made of, the fiber that the people have of this state and this county. to volunteer their time to come and help those in a time of need, those people are the real heroes. they're the ones. they didn't have to come here. they said, "i will come here." and they're making a difference. i've got to say thank you. i've got to give them the shoutout. there were some today that i talked to -- and i went around the entire complex, today, thanking every one of them. but i ran into a group of nurses, and they said to me, "last night, we got the call at 10:00 to come here." 10:00 last night they got the call to come here. and sure enough, when i got here this morning in the dark, with the eerie feeling, with the fog,

the contractor, dpw mechanical on two of them and ed sop fire extinguisher company -- edison fire extinguisher company on the third. and you won't see any reference of the fifth floor on the description of the permits and we are not saying you will but to respond to that question. so thank you and we are here if you have any questions. >> what are you using the fifth floor for? >> for other dining area for the restaurant >> tables for diners? so in six months if i want to eat at this restaurant i might be seated on the fifth floor? >> yes >> so were you able to locate the original permit application? >> what i have is the print out of the permit. >> i saw that from your brief. what i'm looking for is a specific permit application because it indicates at that point what you are actually applying for. >> this does have the exact same description. >> it's a little different than when someone fills it out and when someone interprets it. >> yeah, we've got that. >> did you find out who was the general contractor and did they hire any facilitation people from the audience mentioned a couple names >>