supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you. i have a number of questions on these ordinances. this is an unusual ordinance, and i'd like to get some questions on the record through to the mayor's office, mr. paulino or whatever is here. first office, i'm trying to propose here why use bloomberg money to establish a department department rather than an accept and expend resolution? >> president walton: thank you. do we have a representative from the mayor's office for this? >> yes, president walton. supervisor preston, i'd be happy to get your information to you later in the meeting. >> ms. pearson: deputy city attorney ann pearson, this is because it's an expenditure because it amends the annual salary ordinance. >> supervisor preston: thank you. i'm trying to understand why it would be done that way. this is structured as the creation of an entirely new department with entirely new positions, so i'm trying to understand why it's being done like that. >> tom paulino with the mayor's office. supervisor, i'll get you a question a

supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you. i have a number of questions on these ordinances. this is an unusual ordinance, and i'd like to get some questions on the record through to the mayor's office, mr. paulino or whatever is here. first office, i'm trying to propose here why use bloomberg money to establish a department department rather than an accept and expend resolution? >> president walton: thank you. do we have a representative from the mayor's office for this? >> yes, president walton. supervisor preston, i'd be happy to get your information to you later in the meeting. >> ms. pearson: deputy city attorney ann pearson, this is because it's an expenditure because it amends the annual salary ordinance. >> supervisor preston: thank you. i'm trying to understand why it would be done that way. this is structured as the creation of an entirely new department with entirely new positions, so i'm trying to understand why it's being done like that. >> tom paulino with the mayor's office. supervisor, i'll get you a question a

i'm here to support supervisor dean preston.orst virus we can have is indifference towards our community. during this pandemic, i suffered from being displaced. i do not want other people to go through this as well. please support supervisor dean preston and try to give our community affordable housing so they can live with dignity. i hope this touches your heart and you do the right thing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. i believe that was the last speaker on that line? >> caller: one more speaker please. [speaking spanish] we have two more speakers if it's possible. >> interpreter: i will proceed and interpret. good afternoon, i am a leader in president off the board of axion. i'm calling in support of this proposition hoping that it passes so that it can become a reality for low income families to be able to stay in their homes and not be evicted. lot of families have been displaced during the pandemic due to their high cost of rent. supervisor preston, we leave it in your hands. we hope that god blesses you and tha

go ahead. >> thank you, chair preston. i wanted to sort of state that i -- first, i appreciate all the work that you and your staff and many in the neighborhood have done to work on creating a plan for interim use at 730 stan on that addresses the urgent need in the neighborhood and i do realize and certainly from the hearing today understand there's different ideas and opinions that exist in the neighborhood about priority uses for sites like 730 stannion and this is a youth that needs an urgent need. it came from the community members and organizations themselves the proposal the city made a commitment to moving ahead with this and there's already been a lot of work done to around timing to make it happen. i think again this is an important hearing today and a thank you for calling in highlighting the problematic process that's played out around this recently. i want to thank you for the hearing. i want to say this does highlight a broader issue to me interim use of sites like this. and serve important needs in the neigh

>> chair preston. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you. please call item 1. hearing on the 2018-2019 civil grand jury report. act now before it is too late aggressively expand and enhance our high-pressure emergency firefighting water system. i would like to make the last announcement. if you wish to comment call 415-655-0001. id24963301479. pound twice to be connected to the meeting. star key followed by the number 3 to enter the queue to speak. wait until you have been unmuted to comment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. supervisor mar will be leading this item. welcome back and thank you for joining our committee today. the entirety of our hearing and recognize supervisor mar's past service of the chair of this committee. i very much appreciate his continuing to follow-through on a lot of items he was leading on in this committee involving government oversight. this is one of those items. looking forward to this item we heard earlier this year, i believe. i kno

i want to thank mayor breed, supervisor preston, city administrator chu and dr. short, and the voters, for bringing this project to fruition. it has been a while. most of all i want to thank the dph team, the incredible dph team, who worked on this both here at the clinic and across dph for your resiliency and strength and for getting this work done. this is so amazing. thank you so much. [applause] i also wanted to just say that i have connections with this clinic that goes back some ways i actually trained here as a resident. and i will say that it needed a bit of refurbishing, shall we say, at that point. and i remember talking about the elevators and was recalling getting stuck in an elevator here at one point and that was a while ago. and really excited to be here. and these renovations are really about ensuring that we provide a caring environment for people to get the care they need, to serve the whole patient. and serving the whole patient means providing an environment that is welcoming for people to get check-ups, for people to get primary care, and wom

>> chair preston. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you. please call item 1. hearing on the 2018-2019 civil grand jury report. act now before it is too late aggressively expand and enhance our high-pressure emergency firefighting water system. i would like to make the last announcement. if you wish to comment call 415-655-0001. id24963301479. pound twice to be connected to the meeting. star key followed by the number 3 to enter the queue to speak. wait until you have been unmuted to comment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. supervisor mar will be leading this item. welcome back and thank you for joining our committee today. the entirety of our hearing and recognize supervisor mar's past service of the chair of this committee. i very much appreciate his continuing to follow-through on a lot of items he was leading on in this committee involving government oversight. this is one of those items. looking forward to this item we heard earlier this year, i believe. i kno

supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you.ecord through to the mayor's office, mr. paulino or whatever is here. first office, i'm trying to propose here why use bloomberg money to establish a department department rather than an accept and expend resolution? >> president walton: thank you. do we have a representative from the mayor's office for this? >> yes, president walton. supervisor preston, i'd be happy to get your information to you later in the meeting. >> ms. pearson: deputy city attorney ann pearson, this is because it's an expenditure because it amends the annual salary ordinance. >> supervisor preston: thank you. i'm trying to understand why it would be done that way. this is structured as the creation of an entirely new department with entirely new positions, so i'm trying to understand why it's being done like that. >> tom paulino with the mayor's office. supervisor, i'll get you a question and get back to you on that. >> supervisor preston: thank you, mr. paulino. next question is what is the amount of the city m

i'm here to support supervisor dean preston.e can have is indifference towards our community. during this pandemic, i suffered from being displaced. i do not want other people to go through this as well. please support supervisor dean preston and try to give our community affordable housing so they can live with dignity. i hope this touches your heart and you do the right thing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. i believe that was the last speaker on that line? >> caller: one more speaker please. [speaking spanish] we have two more speakers if it's possible. >> interpreter: i will proceed and interpret. good afternoon, i am a leader in president off the board of axion. i'm calling in support of this proposition hoping that it passes so that it can become a reality for low income families to be able to stay in their homes and not be evicted. lot of families have been displaced during the pandemic due to their high cost of rent. supervisor preston, we leave it in your hands. we hope that god blesses you and that the funds

. >> thank you, chair preston. i, too, concur with chair preston has said. it is a challenging time for a lot of really industries and definitely tourism. i am curious given the challenges you face and unpredictability in terms of tourism. i think that. [indiscernable] by comparison to other major cities in terms of tourism recovery. what are the strategies? we look to you for tourism expertise and just seeing how you are over $2 million to $150,000 that is alarming. the numbers point to a dire picture. trying to understand now what you have it is coming to terms. we have to make payments. what are your strategies? i know it is a big question. >> sure. i understand the question. i am happy to answer. the key strategies. look at the typical market mix of visitors that come to the city. typically leisure visitors make up 30% of the visitors coming in. with the november 8th change for international visitation opening up from europe that will help impact us. also, if office workers start coming back we do hope in january that will see a pickup in business travel

supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you, madam clerk. i, too, join supervisor peskin in offering my condolences to supervisor ronen, and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor preston. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you. my father, neal ronen, passed away last night. i have to imagine that so much of the man that he was has to do with the complex nature of how his country came to life. on one hand, he accepted family members into his home and lived in a society that was built by those who miraculously survived the holocaust. he told me a story many times of his cousin who hid during the war in the french country side, and after the war, who came to live with him. one day, when he was eating dinner with my dad, he asked my dad if he had butter on his bread, did that mean he could have marmalade later? that stuck with him. in the army, his dream was to be a pilot, but because his eye sight wasn't perfect, he wasn't allowed, so he did the next best thing, backing a paratrooper -- becoming a paratrooper, so he could

i'm here to support supervisor dean preston.us we can have is indifference towards our community. during this pandemic, i suffered from being displaced. i do not want other people to go through this as well. please support supervisor dean preston and try to give our community affordable housing so they can live with dignity. i hope this touches your heart and you do the right thing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. i believe that was the last speaker on that line? >> caller: one more speaker please. [speaking spanish] we have two more speakers if it's possible. >> interpreter: i will proceed and interpret. good afternoon, i am a leader in president off the board of axion. i'm calling in support of this proposition hoping that it passes so that it can become a reality for low income families to be able to stay in their homes and not be evicted. lot of families have been displaced during the pandemic due to their high cost of rent. supervisor preston, we leave it in your hands. we hope that god blesses you and that the fu

. >> thank you, chair preston. i, too, concur with chair preston has said. it is a challenging time for a lot of really industries and definitely tourism. i am curious given the challenges you face and unpredictability in terms of tourism. i think that. [indiscernable] by comparison to other major cities in terms of tourism recovery. what are the strategies? we look to you for tourism expertise and just seeing how you are over $2 million to $150,000 that is alarming. the numbers point to a dire picture. trying to understand now what you have it is coming to terms. we have to make payments. what are your strategies? i know it is a big question. >> sure. i understand the question. i am happy to answer. the key strategies. look at the typical market mix of visitors that come to the city. typically leisure visitors make up 30% of the visitors coming in. with the november 8th change for international visitation opening up from europe that will help impact us. also, if office workers start coming back we do hope in january that will see a pickup in business travel

i'm here to support supervisor dean preston.orst virus we can have is indifference towards our community. during this pandemic, i suffered from being displaced. i do not want other people to go through this as well. please support supervisor dean preston and try to give our community affordable housing so they can live with dignity. i hope this touches your heart and you do the right thing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. i believe that was the last speaker on that line? >> caller: one more speaker please. [speaking spanish] we have two more speakers if it's possible. >> interpreter: i will proceed and interpret. good afternoon, i am a leader in president off the board of axion. i'm calling in support of this proposition hoping that it passes so that it can become a reality for low income families to be able to stay in their homes and not be evicted. lot of families have been displaced during the pandemic due to their high cost of rent. supervisor preston, we leave it in your hands. we hope that god blesses you and tha

supervisor, preston. >> supervisor: thank you. and thank you for the explanation and so i'm clear, it's the $10 million threshold here to bring this contract before the board is that irrelevant to your analysis of the amount or length of contract and then you just do what you're going to do regardless and then sometimes it falls under $10 million and if it falls above you come here or does it enter into your decisions around the amount or length of the contract you enter into? >> so generally as i said we have historically done three-year contract with one-er -- one-year option to extend and take into account what we expect for the initial term and usage might be and the initial contract might for the initial term and as we amend the contractor if we determine we want to extend the contract we would determine what additional contract may be needed and if it goes over the supervisor's approval threshold we'd come to you for approval and if it did not we would not come to you for approval. >> supervisor: okay. through the president,

i'm here to support supervisor dean preston.orst virus we can have is indifference towards our community. during this pandemic, i suffered from being displaced. i do not want other people to go through this as well. please support supervisor dean preston and try to give our community affordable housing so they can live with dignity. i hope this touches your heart and you do the right thing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. i believe that was the last speaker on that line? >> caller: one more speaker please. [speaking spanish] we have two more speakers if it's possible. >> interpreter: i will proceed and interpret. good afternoon, i am a leader in president off the board of axion. i'm calling in support of this proposition hoping that it passes so that it can become a reality for low income families to be able to stay in their homes and not be evicted. lot of families have been displaced during the pandemic due to their high cost of rent. supervisor preston, we leave it in your hands. we hope that god blesses you and tha

>> chair preston.supervisor mar. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you. please call item 1. hearing on the 2018-2019 civil grand jury report. act now before it is too late aggressively expand and enhance our high-pressure emergency firefighting water system. i would like to make the last announcement. if you wish to comment call 415-655-0001. id24963301479. pound twice to be connected to the meeting. star key followed by the number 3 to enter the queue to speak. wait until you have been unmuted to comment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. supervisor mar will be leading this item. welcome back and thank you for joining our committee today. the entirety of our hearing and recognize supervisor mar's past service of the chair of this committee. i very much appreciate his continuing to follow-through on a lot of items he was leading on in this committee involving government oversight. this is one of those items. looking forward to this item we heard earlier this year, i believe. i know that we ha

supervisor, preston. >> supervisor: thank you. and thank you for the explanation and so i'm clear, it's the $10 million threshold here to bring this contract before the board is that irrelevant to your analysis of the amount or length of contract and then you just do what you're going to do regardless and then sometimes it falls under $10 million and if it falls above you come here or does it enter into your decisions around the amount or length of the contract you enter into? >> so generally as i said we have historically done three-year contract with one-er -- one-year option to extend and take into account what we expect for the initial term and usage might be and the initial contract might for the initial term and as we amend the contractor if we determine we want to extend the contract we would determine what additional contract may be needed and if it goes over the supervisor's approval threshold we'd come to you for approval and if it did not we would not come to you for approval. >> supervisor: okay. through the president,

supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: well, i do, but i think i'll wait until after public comment. thank you, supervisor mar, and everyone involved in this report. appreciate it. >> chair melgar: let's go to public comment. >> clerk: thank you. matthew from d.t. is supporting us this evening, and he's checking to see how many callers we have in the queue. so if you have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. for those who have already done so, please continue to wait, and the system will indicate you have been unmuted. so we have 12 listeners and seven in the queue. matthew, if you could unmute the first caller, please. >> supervisor mar: madam clerk, just a minute. i see john doherty from ibew has joined us. john, are you going to speak during public comment? >> yeah, i'd like to. i don't know what the rules are, but i just texted in -- >> chair melgar: it's okay. mr. doherty, why don't you go ahead and make your public comment and then we'll go to public comment. >> well, than

i'm elise preston in new york. the threat of wildfires in southern california forced tens of thousands of families to spend thanksgiving in the dark. utilities intentionally cut power as santa ana winds toppled trees onto power lines and homes. a gofundme has raised more than a million dollars for kevin strickland, the missouri man who spent 43 years in prison for a triple murder he did not commit. a missouri judge overturned his conviction this week. but since strickland wasn't exonerated through dna testing, he doesn't qualify for compensation. >>> and for the second year in a row a scottish deer hound named clair is named best in show at the national dog show. the two consecutive wins is historic. for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm elise preston, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >>> good evening and thank you for joining us on this thanksgiving. hope you're having a happy one. i'm tony dokoupil in for norah. for the second year in

vice chair chan. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye. >> mr. chair, three ayes. >> thank you. motion passes. thank you all again. please call the next item. 4. hearing to receive progress updates on the seismic retrofit options for 301 mission. based on public documents in our file that being 160975. members of the public to comment on this call in the call-in number 415-655-0001. today's id24922118986. after you entered the id press pound twice and then star followed by number three if you wish to enter the queue to speak. >> thank you, mr. clerk. i am going to in a minute here hand it off to the sponsor of this item. before i do let me thank mr. peskin and the callers for their patience. it is a long hearing already. let me assure you that these items are not agendized in importance of order or order of importance. we are looking forward to this hearing on this extremely important matter. thank you for your patience. i will turn the floor over to supervisor peskin. >> thank you, chair preston and supervisor chan and mandelman for the opportun

elise preston in new york. thank you so much. >>> well, this morning the nation awaits a verdict in the trial of three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. the jury deliberated for more than six hours yesterday, weighing murder charges against the defendants who are white. they're accused of chasing down and murdering the 25-year-old black man last year. they claim that they tried to make a citizen arrest after they suspected arbery of burglary. >> reporter: ahmaud arbery's mother said a prayer and walked into court atz the state closed its rebuttal before handing the case to the jury. >> when three people chase an unarmed man in a pickup with guns to violate his personal liberty, who gets to claim i'm not responsible for that? under the law in georgia, no one gets to say that. everybody is responsible. >> reporter: the prosecutor had the last word telling the jury that even though travis mcmichael shot and killed ahmaud arbery, gregory mcmichael and william roddie bryan are just as guilty for chasing arbery i

would you kindly make a motion to excuse supervisor preston? >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> supervisor melgar: okay. before we make a vote, let's make a motion to excuse supervisor preston. >> clerk: on the motion to excuse supervisor preston beginning at 3:32 p.m., [roll call] you have three ayes. >> chairman: thank you so much. do either of you have any questions for our presenters? okay. so i just have a couple questions for the mayor's office of housing. hello, welcome director shaw. >> hello, chairwoman melgar. can you hear me? >> chairman: yes. so one of the overriding commonalities and the presentation that we heard was the call for investment into the peephole structure that supports the co-ops. whenever we're needed, whenever there's a fight, we show up. we could think about creating the infrastructure of the. >> yeah. and thank you very much and what a great hearing and i just want to note i think looking at this as a model of outcomes. i've been on board for ability two years now. there's been an evolving and growing narrative. w

i'm elise preston, cbs news new york. >>> it's monday, november 29th, it 2021. this >>> it's monday, november 29th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." bracing for omicron. the new covid variant triggers alarm across the world. how countries including the u.s. are scrambling to respond. >>> cyber monday. shoppers are expected to break records on line today. why the supply chain crisis could open the door to more scammers. >>> making a decision. actor matthew mcconaughey announces whether he'll run for governor of texas. >>> good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we gazabegin with the covid var that's spreading across the globe. the u.s. will ban travel from south africa and nearby regions in efforts to stop the variant from entering the u.s. the former head of the fda, scott gottlieb, believes that omicron is likely already in this country. he told "face the nation" that three shots of covid vaccine will be fairly protective against it. other countries are racing to close their borders. japan and israel have suspended entry of all foreign

. >> thank you, chair preston. i, too, concur with chair preston has said. it is a challenging time for a lot of really industries and definitely tourism. i am curious given the challenges you face and unpredictability in terms of tourism. i think that. [indiscernable] by comparison to other major cities in terms of tourism recovery. what are the strategies? we look to you for tourism expertise and just seeing how you are over $2 million to $150,000 that is alarming. the numbers point to a dire picture. trying to understand now what you have it is coming to terms. we have to make payments. what are your strategies? i know it is a big question. >> sure. i understand the question. i am happy to answer. the key strategies. look at the typical market mix of visitors that come to the city. typically leisure visitors make up 30% of the visitors coming in. with the november 8th change for international visitation opening up from europe that will help impact us. also, if office workers start coming back we do hope in january that will see a pickup in business travel

supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: yes, thank you, chair melgar. forgot to put my name in the chat. obviously, covered a lot of ground, and thank you for, i think, probably lots of questions all of us have on each of these issues, but there were, i guess just a couple of comments or questions i did want to make. and one is something -- and i don't want to repeat things that i said in other settings, but i just want to flag this discussion that's been in a number of presentations around the five-minute network. there's a saying that chair borden mentioned, that mr. rashida talked about, that t.a. staff have talked about. and i continue to have a concern not about the idea of a five-minute network, not about the idea of buses coming every five minutes, but about what i think are not presented in about that plan, which is a set of assumptions, i think, that i think can be problematic. so when i think folks are talking about transportation, they're not talking about -- they're not focusing on trip length, they're not focusing on the elimination of one-