>> supervisor peskin: i just want to start by saying i have immense respect for miss hester. this item has been continued any number of times -- excuse me -- but this cannot go on, so i just want to be very clear with supervisor mandelman that this is the last continuance. there are many people who think that ceqa's being abused. i actually think that we adjudicated last matter very fairly, very impartially, but there are those who want to increase the barriers to entry on ceqa. i say that as somebody who actually brought a ceqa appeal to this board of supervisors as a civilian on treasure island, and some of my colleagues would like to incompeterease the bar to government decisions, which i profoundly disagree with. but relative to the incident case at 617 sanchez, through the president to supervisor mandelman, i would say if, for any reason, they're not ready to hear this on 1 december 2020, they should substitute counsel. >> president yee: okay. all right. nobody on roster. let's vote on the continuance. madam clerk, roll call. >> clerk: mr. president, i believe you might

the transgender day of remembrance started back in 1999 to honor rita hester, a black transgender woman who was killed in massachusetts.>>> in san jose, sacred heart is continuing the series of thanksgiving food box giveaways. folks lined up in their cars to pick up their meal kits. filled with 50 pounds of food, about $100 worth of groceries. this year's food drive, going contact list to keep everyone safe and socially distant. >> we are giving out 4200 boxes over the next five days that will impact 10,000 families, and we are just excited and happy that our community keep showing up for each other, which is part of our vision. >> sacred heart is looking for more volunteers and donations, the food box giveaway continues through november 25, for more information, head to the committee service website.>>> partnering with bay area food bank, the holiday season. and the whole foods market, going online, kpix.com/give. more local news at 5:30 pm, to test or not to test. >> a higher demand for covid tests ahead of thanksgiving, longer lines and testing, health officials are often competing w

charles pinckney owned john, helena, peter, hester, and many others. these are just a few names that we can remember today. george washington knew the subject of slavery was unavoidable by the time of the constitution's ratification. by that time, the institution was already thoroughly mixed into the foundation of our new nation. skipping ahead from 1787 and 1788, what happened to the constitution after the civil war? the constitution was radically changed after the civil war. there are three amendments that were ratified. we call them the civil war amendments or the reconstruction amendment. the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865, the 14th amendment, which is the one we probably know the best, it attached a bunch of civil rights to all people, but particularly for formerly enslaved people. you find the guarantee of equal protection under the law and the guarantee of life, liberty, and property, and without due process of law you cannot be deprived of it. the 15th amendment in 1870 guarantees the right to vote regardless of race. cumulativ

>> supervisor peskin: i just want to start by saying i have immense respect for miss hester.m has been continued any number of times -- excuse me -- but this cannot go on, so i just want to be very clear with supervisor mandelman that this is the last continuance. there are many people who think that ceqa's being abused. i actually think that we adjudicated last matter very fairly, very impartially, but there are those who want to increase the barriers to entry on ceqa. i say that as somebody who actually brought a ceqa appeal to this board of supervisors as a civilian on treasure island, and some of my colleagues would like to incompeterease the bar to government decisions, which i profoundly disagree with. but relative to the incident case at 617 sanchez, through the president to supervisor mandelman, i would say if, for any reason, they're not ready to hear this on 1 december 2020, they should substitute counsel. >> president yee: okay. all right. nobody on roster. let's vote on the continuance. madam clerk, roll call. >> clerk: mr. president, i believe you might want to t

where people are figured out the importance of microbes and the importance of bacteria and you have hester doing his experiments and later developing the pasteurization which can make milk safe and all of that is tremendous and important and just as you say it hast to get to the individual households. parents have to understand the dangers of letting milk spoil or using water you don't know whether it is pure and one of the reasons important is because especially in summers, especially in the cities around the turn-of-the-century there is this understanding that in the summer come something they call cholera and fantasy, it's not cholera but just upset stomach, diarrhea and it kills thousands of babies every month in the summer and there is not a full understanding either on the part of parents or on the part of the medical people where that comes from. is it feeding babies or is it the heat or is it, you know, poor ventilation or what it is is it's all that whole range of microbes that causes children to get stomachs upsets and then babies are so vulnerable to dehydration and it is still

current maintenance services provider and the original installer of the landscaping with wire and hester, whose obligations terminate in mid october of this year. happy to address any questions you may have. >> chair sesay: thank you, mr. updike for the presentation. do i have any questions from my fellow board members for mr. updike? >> thank for the presentation. i just want to better understand. from the memo, when i was reading it, there one divergence in the proposal of the number of hours that we were seeing for the contracted amount. i don't have that page up, but i think it was somewhere in the 1500 or so to over 4,000. i know the winning -- the proposal that you're recommending is in the higher end of the range, not the highest. what is driving the difference in terms of -- in my simple world there is a certain amount of landscaping to do, so why were the proposals so different in terms of the hours involved? >> it's a really good question because it was a wide range of hours allocated to the task. the tasks were clearly outlined. i think what some of the vendors did not recogni