course, i am available for questions alongside garrett taylor, city attorney, director of cnb and jennifer johnson on my team. thank you very much. >> thank you, city administrator. would you like to hear from ms. johnson, ms. taylor? would any of the four of you like to add anything to the city administrator? >> thank you, supervisor peskin. real quick. i am going to leave after public comment. supervisor safai ecan come on so we don't disrupt rules of quorum. heads up. >> okay. >> why don't we go to public comment. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, chair peskin. this is one of those days when i am grateful we have city administrator carmen chu having worked through what i know is a long process. of course, the folks in small local business community looking for relief for a while and have been delayed through covid in getting this and have engaged with us and with you. president walton, thank you and supervisor melgar for all of your work on this. you did the heavy lifting. i got updates along the way from city staff apbe folks in the impactedded communities. we have gotten close. thankings ev

jennifer johnson will put up the presentation. it will be a few quick slides to share the key elements that are changing. >> just as a quick introduction. the 14b program is local business enterprise l.b.e. it was put into place after prop 209 passed that took away minority and women owned business program. what the l.b.e. program provides is bid preference for certified local businesses. as many of you know contract monitoring division is within the city administrator's office headed by the administrator. the ordinance was last amended by the board of supervisors in 2015 and made a number of changes including increases to threshold but not for all categories. i will get into that in a little bit. in terms of some of the major changes i will get into more detail today with you on. a few things. one, i think as president walton presented it increases threshold for certification for l.b.e. firms. our program is currently categorized to three categories. thresholds for micro businesses, small businesses and category called sba small

folks from the city administrator's office to make presentations, and i believe that it is miss jennifer johnson from city administrator's office to really consolidate all the responses from our city departments. that's including the capital planning and o.c.a. for all the findings and recommendations. >> chair preston: thank you, supervisor chan, and i believe we can start off with a civil grand jury representative, if that's okay. i see mr. cohen. my notes have said mr. [indiscernible] would speak. i see mr. cohen raising his hand, and i'll let you sort out which one of you will use the ten minutes to present the item. >> good morning. my name is allen cohen, and i am the fore person of the 2020-2021 civil grand jury. san francisco is known for the golden gate bridge, for sourdough, for fisherman's wharf, and our earthquakes. everyone knows that it's only a matter of time before another earthquake strikes our city. >> i'm going to raise a particular issue that i think we saw from reading the initial response from the city agencies. so first of all, i really commend the responders from the mayo

14b and also one of the most competent people in the city our city administrator along with jennifer johnsont asian inc. doug parish. nick colina. miguel for their work on this. it has been a long road. this is a really good piece of legislation that is going to help a lot of folks. i do think there are some outstanding issues that need some study. that should be moved forward as well. i just want to point out that in looking at the way that we contract out in the city, we have to realize that during the pandemic we saw where the cracks are in our system. for communities of color, every contract, every dollar the city puts out through a minority

the panel is back, jennifer, brez, and renee. that's ron johnson, senator from wisconsin.we'll talk about it on the other side. >> it's not an irrational decision for people to say i don't want to take this experimental vaccine. another point is the fact that the only fda approved drug, the version of the pfizer drug, i do not believe is widely available. >> they're going to be making big membership on vaccines and drugs, pfizer and moderna on the vaccines and merck on this drug as well. what happens to ooifr mekten? >> well, there's not money in it. >> wait. what? a horse dewormer? [ laughter ] >> jennifer, since you're right next to me in this screen, what in the entire -- what's he talking about? >> he's talking about nothing. and this is complete crap coming from him. he never used to be this insane. he was a businessman. and for years he operated like a kind of fiscal conservative, sort of normal republican, but no more. he has jumped upon the trump train, and let me be perfectly clear tomorrow from a republican president, he is killing people. people listen to them.

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for people who have received johnson & johnson and whether they would benefit from having a different second dose than their first dose. >> reporter: dr. jennifer of johns hopkins, always great to have you. thank you very much for being here >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: as we reported earlier, the partisan divide in washington was on full display today as a democrat-backed voting bill failed to move forward in the u.s. senate. every republican lined up in opposition to the so-called "freedom to vote act" that democrats say would have improved voting access and election integrity. senator tim kaine of virginia co-sponsored the legislation, and he joins me now. senator, very good to have you back on the "newshour". >> thanks, judy. >> reporter: what does it mean that republicans were able to block this measure even from is was a vote to debate theut, bill, not to pass it, and we made an offer in the seate which is you vote to let us debate this bill, we will give you unlimited amendments. you can offer as many amendments as you want and still vote against et at the end if you didn't like it, but every republican lined up to basically blo

jennifer jenkins went viral describing her personal experience. >> this is a political, calculated move to incite voters to be engaged using fear and different tactics. >> reporter: joining johnsonunty, tennessee, all making national news in the wake of persistent, violent threats against school board members. this week parents in michigan and virginia filing suit against the department of justice for allegedly stifling free speech by investigating similar threats. when schools reopened after covid, masking became politicized at the national and local levels. >> my grandmother died of covid because someone wasn't wearing a mask. >> reporter: and in the wake of george floyd's murder, fights over critical race theory. a graduate level study of the relationship between the law and racial inequality. it's not taught in public schools, but some conservative activists and parents have turned it into a catch-all for diversity programs and lessons about racism they say can make white students feel guilt. >> i feel this is culturally sanctioned discrimination. >> reporter: now special interest groups and political action committees or pacs give their attention and big money to what were