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it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year.k your calendars every year. you can see us on the website >> my background is in engineering. i am a civil engineer by training. my career has really been around government service. when the opportunity came up to serve the city of san francisco, that was just an opportunity i really needed to explore. [♪] [♪] i think it was in junior high and really started to do well in math but i faced some really interesting challenges. many young ladies were not in math and i was the only one in some of these classes. it was tough, it was difficult to succeed when a teacher didn't have confidence in you, but i was determined and i realized that engineering really is what i was interested in. as i moved into college and took engineering, preengineering classes, once again i hit some of those same stereotypes that women are not in this field. that just challenged me more. because i was enjoying it, i was determined to be successful. now i took that drive that i have and a couple it with public serv

preference to keep the north gate open up to the parking lot while keeping the southern gate, the portola gate closed, in order to maximize the amount of parking that's available safely for people on foot and bicycles and other modes while allowing people to drive up to the lot to the shortest point, which is known as christmas tree lot. so we are going to be talking to the frisk police department, the p.u.c., the reservoir up there, san francisco travel, and the tour bus industry, about whether -- like, how to make this work, and so we will be coming back to you in december or january for a public hearing with our recommendations. finally, i do want to note that there has been a lot of conversation happening about great highway, another street that was closed early in the pandemic and left closed, and perhaps the street that has resulted in attracting by far the greatest number of people to it, we have more people using great highway on foot and skate board and bike and wheelchairs than we had people using it in cars before covid. that said, the street's closure has resulted in a high le

capital and remember the stock went down when they bought the smaller company what was the name of it, portola>> and elliot is a significant owner. >> i have to tell you, i think this is a gift for shareholders because the reason why i think it's a gift is because they've been suffering but also there is a pipeline here. and the pipeline was about to come to fruition and this one drug is not something you buy a company for. i don't understand astrazeneca. i don't think a lot of people do. the stock is terrible and talked up the vaccine more than anybody. i felt they had been other than moderna and now what is going, would you take their vaccine after what is going on? no. >> yeah, the data that they shared and the way they shared it was a little unsettle,iunset guess. they went with the half dose and that was odd. as for alexion, it has an expertise in rare disease development and commercializati commercialization. they are talking about the fact that they have 11 molecules across 20 clinical programs and a spectrum of different indications. again, they do have products on the market. this is

for 26 years, family connections has provided early child care centers in the portola excelsior district. we wholeheartedly support the next of child care providers. we serve over 1200 children and families every year. 95% of whom are low-income, and the majority of whom are immigrants and non-english speaking families. we must realize that e.c.e. services cannot operate in a vacuum. we love the hundreds of children that come to our centers every day, and we also love the parents, grandparents, and families that these children go home to. in order to support these children, we must take a multigenerational approach to those family members that don't speak english and -- >> clerk: thank you to the caller. thank you to the caller. [inaudible] >> clerk: operations, thank you. okay. we are still taking public comment specifically on the $42 million reserve release to the office of early care and education. we have two more callers in the queue. welcome, caller. you'll have one minute. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is gabriela judd secoli. [inaudible] one in supervisor mandelman's dis