. >> commissioner gilman present. >> i believe commissioner lee is on his way. >> this san francisco we are on the homeland for the ramaytush ohlone land and in accordance with their altercation we have not forgotten their that responsibilities of site and for all people that reside in the territory and as guest we recognize we benefit from work and wish to pay our respect by the ancestors and others of the ramaytush ohlone community. >> 2. approval of minutes - february 28, 2023. i so moved. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. >> all in favor, say "aye." >> aye. >> any opposed? the minutes have been you approved. >> item number 3, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> four is announcements. >> please note the next meeting on april 26, 2023, please be advised any person responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing electronic device. and member of the

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it was the inaugural gilman street fair. 70 vendors came together around gilman and 5th to celebratequeness of northwest berkeley yesterday. artists were joined by food vendors to try to make the neighborhood a little more neighborly. >> i think when you know your neighbors, you trust your neighbors, and you can talk to your neighbors. and i think that is important to make people feel safe and to make people feel like they've got a sense of community. >> agree more. the family-friendly event featured opportunities for visitors to express their own artistry as well. >>> happening this week, james corden will begin the final run as host on cbs of the late late show and they are bringing the big stars in among the guests giving james a farewell will be ray romano. billie eilish and nora jones who will perform. harry styles and will ferrell will also join corden for the final show this thursday. already jocelyn. >> i know. i'm looking forward to it. and seeing harry styles as well. >>> i'm still recovering from yesterday's nail biter between the warriors and kings. i think a lot of fans

gilman street was closed this afternoon for the inaugural gilman street fair. 70 vendors came together around gilman and fifth to celebrate northwest berkeley. artists were joined by food vendors to try to make the neighborhood a little more neighborly. >> i think when you know your neighbors, you trust your neighbors and you can talk to injure neighbors and i think that is important to make people feel safe and have a sense of community. >> the event featured opportunities for visitors to express their own artistry as well. chan was a fair organizer and based on the turnout, she inwill become an annual tradition. >>> look at this. firefighters in san jose got a strange delivery yesterday when someone dropped off a baby deer at fire station 25 in alviso. after feeding the fawn, the firefighters turned it over to animal control. >>> it was a beautiful day and can't wait for this week. >> it's going to get a lot warmer. we kind of started this on friday and saturday. we hit a lot of low 80s. today we started giving some of those back. tomorrow we're still doing average. the warm-up wedne

cal-trans is closing an off-ramp from 80-to gilman it is for work on a roundabout. it will be closed for 50 days. part of a project that will include a bike lane and pedestrian crossings. >> the street was closed for another reason this afternoon. it was the inaugural street fair. people came together to celebrate northwest berkeley. artists were joined by food vendors to make the neighborhood a little more neighborly. >> i think with when you know your neighbors, trust your neighbors you can talk to your neighbors. i think that is important that people feel safe and to make people feel like they have a sense of community. >> family-friendly event featured opportunities for visitors to express their own artistry as well. based on today's turnout she expecting it to be an annual tradition. >>> brian is here doing double duties >> yes, the weather guy >> it feels nice. how are you doing? >> well, great. long time no talk [ laughter ] darren is off tonight and he has to do the position tomorrow. now, it will warm up midweek. things will be near 90 degrees >> that sound

caltrans is closing the offramp from 82 gilman street. this is the first closure. it goes through wednesday. crews are working on a roundabout starting may 2. it will be closed for 50 days. this is all part of a $75 million project that also includes bike and pedestrian crossings. >>> today the san jose mayor plans to promote state legislation to ease homelessness. the bill is designed to make it easier to deploy so-called opportunity housing units. those units would provide temporary shelter on vacant land, potentially for thousands of people in california. state senator josh becker, who introduced the bill, will join the mayor at a press conference this morning. the mayor vowed to and the area of encampments. >>> phase 1 of a debris removal program in monterey county ends today as part of a curbside and drop off service to clean up. the town was hit hard by the winter storms and residents are still feeling the effects of flooding. summer still not even able to return to their homes. >>> developing news overseas. president biden has ordered the evacuation of u.s.

pavel to gilman, does not advertise the private life of their adopted ones, they also have five, butently for the sixteen-year-old philip from mariupol , the child will have to live in 2017 because of oncology , his stepfather, who simply kicked him out of the house after the outbreak of hostilities. but we i always come home, he laughs and says. ah. what did you do. he says, well, he was chained to the battery, they say what i was doing. he says, in fact, you look, when in the western media it looks exactly like this , he came to us for guest mode. i mean , he was just there for the weekend. that is, he met. and it wasn't. so there he was , he had to give. consent and all. and after that, at some point, i told him, maybe you will stay completely. that's what he said, yes, of course. i really want everything so he got into a family from orphanages in the donbass and new regions , more than a thousand children were evacuated. about 350 were temporarily placed in the speech families. again, not about adoption, when new parents can change the child's documents and name, and in fact. era

cal trans closed the off ramp from i-80 to gilman. it will be open again thursday but only for a few days before beginning a 50-day closure on may 2nd. it's a project that includes bike and pedestrian crossings. >>> holding a public hearing right now about adding a toll along highway 37. it would run from seres point to mayor's island. if approved, the money from that toll would pay for raising the flood-prone roadway. rising sea levels could overwhelm the highway in the next 20 years. >>> after years of struggle and store closures, bed, bath, and beyond are going out of business. the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the weekend. it will be closing its remaining 360 stores and 120 bye bye baby locations by the end of june. those stores collectively employ about 14,000 people. the chain used to dominate in its category in retail but was never able to come up with an effective answer to online options like amazon. >> from your medications up to bedding, bath, everything. i'm sad. it's gone. it's a new way of life,

they moved to a new location over near san pablo and gilman and have had their share of challenges. they understand kc's barbecue is part of the fabric of berkeley. though their doors are closed, it doesn't mean they're done yet. they're looking to pivot to other options like maybe food trucks or even pop-ups. >> looks like they're looking at other options. so many people are sad. have you been able to speak with customers? what are they telling you? >> reporter: on a typical day they would open at noon, and we were there at noon today. there was a gentleman who walked up, said he had been a long time customer at both of their locations. and he didn't know that they were closing. so, understandably, he was disappointed. he said that over the years he was just happy to have had their food and really enjoyed it and said he would be looking and hoping to see if they would be doing anything in the future. >> all right. christie, thank you for that preview. i know your full story will be airing at 6:00. we'll see you then. >>> take you to burlingame now. two sections of el camino real wi

that they tried to rush it in hopkins corridor project is a plan to build protected bike lanes from gilmantter street and improve pedestrian safety. but over the years, people have said the court of bicycle ratio doesn't support bike lanes and any changes to the nearby business district would take away parking. there might be 100 cars that go by. maybe two bicycles go by in that time. i don't understand what the big deal is to build more bike lanes. there are other streets. you could bypass this area three page letter from berkeley city manager to the mayor now seems to align with people's concerns . the letter detailed several issues, including a lack of staffing needed to complete necessary work a need to restore confidence in the project. in most importantly, the project's failure to meet fire department safety requirements. it was something that we absolutely didn't expect had no idea that was coming prepared to speak out against the project at an upcoming city council meeting. donna dietmar believes the letter has put the project on hold indefinitely. the mayor couldn't be reached for

thank you supervisors. >> thank you, commissioner gilman. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, and last but not least, i want to invite who is going to talk about the council's research in san francisco and the recommendation that's they prepared to the city in response is to hsh report. >> director of council economic institute. we're the research arm, i would like to say that we make charts and graphs. we feed into the work of the bay area which is the business advocacy arm working across the nine counties to talk about the economy and our original economy here. just some contacts. if the council were hyper transportation, these court region, it was not until 5 or 6 years that homelessness rose to the top of our agenda, and they told us that the homelessness was causing, so how we often start the conversations, we have a lot of data to inform and provide contact to the conversation happening here. first let me start with this chart, we present a lot of data and you say a lost data from time and point counts. one thing that i like to think,

uh, the monastery, mmm, marina magdalene gilman, and the lamps, here, which we already have today told with the tolpad. after all, the imperial family, uh, gave protondas for hmm. in general , it was, of course, very, very difficult to build in jerusalem, because to imagine what jerusalem of the 19th century was like. and in comparison with those beautiful examples of russian architecture, the sergius metochion or even a hospital is a russian spiritual mission, uh, and uh, without the activity of another uh person, uh, whom i also cannot help but remember today dmitry dmitrievich smyshlyaev and this is the first he was a perm merchant who, uh, in at the end of his life, he decided, uh, almost for the last time, to go on a pilgrimage to the holy land, and to bow hmm to its shrines and come to russia and already sweat. but hmm leadership of the palestinian society. decided to suggest to him, uh, not to leave the holy land ah. to work and he became the first commissioner of the palestinian society and built two pearls of russian palestine, sergievskaya and alexander compound in jerusalem

the hopkins corridor project is made up of bike lanes between gilman and sutter street. the city manager wrote a three page letter to the mayor detailing potential problems, including a lack of workers to finish the project a need to restore public confidence about the plan and not meeting the fire department safety requirements. there might be 100 cars that go by. maybe two bicycles go by in that time . i don't understand what the big deal is to build more bike lanes, whatever it took for the city to come to its senses was okay with us, and we're not done with the idea of having a good bike infrastructure. city manager says concerns about the plan should delay a special session of city council that was scheduled for two weeks from now . the advocacy group walk bike berkeley issued to respond to it reads. in part, our community has waited too long for safe routes to schools and destinations on this high injury street. we call on the city manager and the mayor to get this project back on track. quickly. alright 7 49 is the time back up valley keeping an eye on the commute

that they tried to rush it in hopkins corridor project is a plan to build protected bike lanes from gilmannder street and improve pedestrian safety. but over the years, people have said the court of bicycle ratio doesn't support bike lanes and any changes to the nearby business district would take away parking. there might be 100 cars that go by. maybe two bicycles go by in that time. i don't understand what the big deal is to build more bike lanes. there are other streets. you could bypass this area three page letter from berkeley city manager to the mayor now seems to align with people's concerns . the letter detailed several issues, including a lack of staffing needed to complete necessary work. i need to restore confidence in the project in most importantly, the project's failure to meet fire department safety requirements. it was something that we absolutely didn't expect had no idea that was coming prepared to speak out against the project at an upcoming city council meeting. donna dietmar believes the letter has put the project on hold indefinitely. the mayor couldn't be reached for

that they tried to rush it in hopkins corridor project is a plan to build protected bike lanes from gilmantreet and improve pedestrian safety. but over the years, people have said the court of bicycle ratio doesn't support bike lanes and any changes to the nearby business district would take away parking . there might be 100 cars that go by. maybe two bicycles go by in that time. i don't understand what the big deal is to build more bike lanes. there are other streets. you could bypass this area three page letter from berkeley city manager to the mayor now seems to align with people's concerns. the letter detailed several issues, including a lack of staffing needed to complete necessary work. i need to restore confidence in the project in most importantly, the project's failure to meet fire department safety requirements. it was something that we absolutely didn't expect had no idea that was coming prepared to speak out against the project at an upcoming city council meeting. donna dietmar believes the letter has put the project on hold indefinitely. the mayor couldn't be reached for comme

that they tried to rush it in hopkins corridor project is a plan to build protected bike lanes from gilman to sutter street and improve pedestrian safety. but over the years, people have said the court of bicycle ratio doesn't support bike lanes and any changes to the nearby business district would take away parking . there might be 100 cars that go by. maybe two bicycles go by in that time. i don't understand what the big deal is to build more bike lanes. there are other streets. you could bypass this area three page letter from berkeley city manager to the mayor now seems to align with people's concerns. the letter detailed several issues, including a lack of staffing needed to complete necessary work. i need to restore confidence in the project in most importantly, the project's failure to meet fire department safety requirements. it was something that we absolutely didn't expect had no idea that was coming prepared to speak out against the project at an upcoming city council meeting. donna dietmar believes the letter has put the project on hold indefinitely. the mayor couldn't be reach

also there's a traffic alert now in n last n d ly through wednes sp starting on may 2nd and gilman will be actually closed for 50 dates around that time. this is part of the $75 million project also including bike and pedestrian crossings. all right, let's get a live look at conditions right now from our photojournalist malcolm who is out and about early this morning actually driving along 80. as we are tracking your commute. he's heading to that area near the closure to see if it's having any sort of impact to traffic. and we are tracking a few slow spots overall working your way westbound. actually going eastbound right now as you head not too far from that berkeley area. you just saw him pass through that arch there near university. westbound 80 near manuel campos parkway. that's where the left lane is still completely shut down due to the crash. and traffic is backed up all the way into that vacaville area. now once you are past that, you are doing okay for the most part. until you bet into richmond. that's where we're tracking some slow speeds. down to about 26 miles per hour. and

. >> commissioner gilman present. >> i believe commissioner lee is on his way. >> this san franciscoand and in accordance with their altercation we have not forgotten their that responsibilities of site and for all people that reside in the territory and as guest we recognize we

as well as sam dodge and amy king from jeff and gilman from all home and jeff from the bay area council. and i want to thank jackie in my office who has done incredible work to try to herd all the cats for this hearing. there are gray areas of san franciscan and about the right way to proceed, i do not envy the city staff who have to find their way from the different perspectives for myself. we have been clear, and i think that should be a priority in our budgeting, but that conversation will continue and i guess i'll ask that we file this hearing. >> a motion to file the hearing made by supervisor mandelman seconded by we'll take that without objection. that will be the order, thank you supervisor mandelman and colleagues and members of the public and city staff for that long and important hearing. madam clerk, why don't we remember to our regular agenda. can you read items 13 and 14 together. >> clerk: 13 and 14 call together two ordinance that support the department of public works. item 13 amends the salary ordinance for fiscal year and 23-24 to reflect the addition of 56 off positi

. >> commissioner gilman present. >> i believe commissioner lee is on his way. >> this san francisco we are on the homeland for the ramaytush ohlone land and in accordance with their altercation we have not forgotten t