so, let's go ahead and commissioner pearlman. >> i'm happy to kick this off. most of you probably remember my feelings about the historical status of the site being so severely deteriorated and the encouragement of housing on here i'm thrilled to hear from miss vineheart the project has come from what was pretty contentious community voice from our hearing whenever that was about this project. so, i think that the proposed project is an excellent project. it seems to -- it seems to really meet the requirements of the developer as well as satisfy the community for what they were looking for. i think the alternatives are quite good. they are, you know, they are well thought through. they don't make much sense economically, i would think, but that's not our, you know, our purview to really say anything about. in general i think it's been well, you know, well done as a study to get through the environmental review process and i hope that in the outcome of the project once it's passed the eir stage that the proposed project does come to fruition. i think it's prett

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. >>> stanley pearlman is professor of biology and immunology at the university of iowa.ins me now from iowa city. what a year it's been, especially for someone like you. you know, one of the leading experts in coronavirus of only about a dozen people in the world. what has surprised you about how this virus has behaved in the last year? >> well, certainly, the biggest surprise to me has been how contagious it is because, unlike the previous coronaviruses that cause severe disease in people, this one really transmitted from person to person. and that -- that probably, if i was going to pick one, single thing, is the surprise. and, of course, that's the surprise that's made this into such an awful pandemic. >> now, to the new variant. there's one in south africa. obviously, the one in the uk. i mean, some people seem to be downplaying it. and yet, if it makes this virus more transmissible, what is your prediction about the effect this could have on the pandemic? >> yeah. so, this is -- this is a difficult question because, if you have two people who are infected with an --

. >> i think commissioner pearlman has something to add. >> thank you. i really want to echo what commissioner hyland just said about the celebration of a building versus the celebration of culture. i, you know, personally get stuck in the historical view of history being about the building, and especially being an architect, the first thing i do when i start reading the information, you know, about a project being landmarked is look at the building, and of course, neither of these buildings are much to speak of from an architectural standpoint. but i still appreciate that san francisco in particular is leading the country in how we celebrate who we are. >> right. >> i thought this morning as i watched the inauguration about the broad spectrum of people that are going to be in our government, and so i think now we as a city are really looking at that same broad spectrum of who we are and how we got here and where we go from here, so i really applaud this community in particular. it seems like, you know, the same people were involved in preparing these re

. >> their manager, lou pearlman said, i think i need another one of these. ♪ tearing up my heart whent's, like, the 1927 yankees, in terms of pop. ♪ oh, baby, baby, how was i supposed to know ♪ >> teenagers are the biggest consumers of music, and britney has become their queen. ♪ oops, i did it again >> britney was the madonna, whereas christina was like the mariah. ♪ i'm a genie in a bottle you got to rub me the right way ♪ >> christina, you know, very tiny girl. she's under 5 feet. and when she opened her mouth, it was like this burst of like wind came through your hair. you're like, that voice is coming out of that girl? >> the end of the '90s is a really precarious, strange time for music because mtv stops playing music videos. they start doing some more kind of reality-television programming. and everyone's kind of like that's never going to take off. >> music would be as much or more a part of people's lives as it had ever been but the economics part would vanish. ♪ time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go ♪ >> this is the kind of music i am going to make, and i don't

. >> clerk: commissioner pearlman. >> here. >> clerk: commissioner so? commissioner so? commissioner so, you may be muted or -- >> i'm here. >> clerk: there you go. thank you. commissioners, first on your agenda is general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission, except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, the opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. we should take any member of the public wishing to speak under general public comment. you have three minutes. again to get into the queue, you must press star then three. >> caller: hello, i'm richard rothman and talking about -- [inaudible]. i remember the m.o.u. between the city. and there's no mention of protection of the murals in there. all they mention is the m.o.u. -- is the e.r.a. said they'll set up a committee, after the murals are moved. we need to know where these murals are going before they're moved. who else is going to be on the comm

my name is jennie pearlman. i'm here from safe and strike that. we stand in solidarity with the early education community and support the release of these funded and the:00 with family resource centers to provide community support. we believe that san francisco's 26 f.r.c.s are vital to the city's early childhood system, and working together, our early childhood system and f.r.c.s has a real potential to prevent childhood abuse and neglect within two generations as well as prepare children for school and academic success. research shows that children and families need a broad safety net that includes early education centers as well as family support centers. thank you. >> clerk: thank you to the caller. we appreciate the great work you're all doing to fit your comments into one moment for the efficiency of this meeting. okay. operations, i understand there's five callers in the queue, about 38 listeners. press star, three if you'd like to provide comment on the release of reserves. welcome, caller. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is ash renn

. >> clerk: commissioner pearlman. >> here. >> clerk: commissioner so? commissioner so? commissioner so, you may be muted or -- >> i'm here. >> clerk: there you go. thank you. commissioners, first on your agenda is general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission, except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, the opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. we should take any member of the public wishing to speak under general public comment. you have three minutes. again to get into the queue, you must press star then three. >> caller: hello, i'm richard rothman and talking about -- [inaudible]. i remember the m.o.u. between the city. and there's no mention of protection of the murals in there. all they mention is the m.o.u. -- is the e.r.a. said they'll set up a committee, after the murals are moved. we need to know where these murals are going before they're moved. who else is going to be on the comm