i think that commissioner stephenson, i think you are on mute. >> president stephenson: getting lazy.y comments or questions commissioners? thank you. all right, let's open it up to public comment, please. >> clerk: all right, the instructions are on the screen. please remember to press star, 3, to be added to the queue and you will have three minutes to make your comments. i'm not seeing any callers but we'll take one more pause for anyone who would like to call in. not seeing any callers in the queue. >> president stephenson: public comment is closed. next item. >> clerk: and moving to adjournment and the time is 7:30 p.m. thank you for joining us. >> president stephenson: thanks, everybody. >> thank you, bye-bye. >> thank you. >> good morning. this meet willing come to order. welcome to the thursday, march 18, 2021 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. i'm supervisor dean preston t chair of this committee and i am joined by vice chair connie chan and committee member supervisor rafael mandelman. thank you to the committee's clerk, john carroll and to sfgov tv for

i think that commissioner stephenson, i think you are on mute. >> president stephenson: getting lazy.y comments or questions commissioners? thank you. all right, let's open it up to public comment, please. >> clerk: all right, the instructions are on the screen. please remember to press star, 3, to be added to the queue and you will have three minutes to make your comments. i'm not seeing any callers but we'll take one more pause for anyone who would like to call in. not seeing any callers in the queue. >> president stephenson: public comment is closed. next item. >> clerk: and moving to adjournment and the time is 7:30 p.m. thank you for joining us. >> president stephenson: thanks, everybody. >> thank you, bye-bye. >> thank you. >> ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ it looks at good and tastes good and it is good in my mouth pretty amazing. >> ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ i am the executive chef i've been here as a chef at la concina since 2005 reason we do the festival and the reason we started to celebrate the spirit and talent and trivia and the hard work of the women in the la concina program if you w

i think that commissioner stephenson, i think you are on mute. >> president stephenson: getting lazy.y comments or questions commissioners? thank you. all right, let's open it up to public comment, please. >> clerk: all right, the instructions are on the screen. please remember to press star, 3, to be added to the queue and you will have three minutes to make your comments. i'm not seeing any callers but we'll take one more pause for anyone who would like to call in. not seeing any callers in the queue. >> president stephenson: public comment is closed. next item. >> clerk: and moving to adjournment and the time is 7:30 p.m. thank you for joining us. >> president stephenson: thanks, everybody. >> thank you, bye-bye. >> thank you.

what i was going to say is i agree completely with everything that president stephenson said. i don't know whether the right word -- i don't know whether this is alarming or heartbreaking, but it's probably both. we do have an emergency in the city, and the definition of an emergency is when you have one, you prioritize, and we've got to find a way to prioritize our climate work and also our e.v. work. when i was looking at the list of things that we aren't going to do on the e.v. project that debbie showed us, it's just alarming. disband the working group, no word on partnerships, the work on the large scale e.v. stuff that's so important, i really think that of all the things we do in this department, everything is important, but i think the climate work has just got to be the most important. when it comes to climate, i really think the e.v. work is the low hanging fruit. it's the way to make the biggest difference in the shortest amount of time. we've got to find a way to plug the gap. the stimulus funding makes sense in the coming year or two, but i also agree with the pre

>> no, on that note, i agree, president stephenson. we've heard today from climate activists, union workers, and department staff, so i'm in favor of pushing this out as quickly as possible and pushing forward what we've heard a lot of speakers today call for. >> thank you, commissioner. all right. so i think what's next up is for a motion to be made to make the amendments as they were stated by charles. do i hear a motion? commissioner wald. do i hear a second? and i can't see everybody. sorry. seconded by commissioner chu, thank you. and then, we vote on the amendment, and then, we're going to have another motion after that. so can we do a roll call vote, please, on the amendment? >> clerk: yes. okay. i will call the roll call vote on the amendment. [roll call] >> all right. the amendment passes. do i hear a motion to approve the amendment -- or not approve the amendment -- to push the resolution forward -- the resolution? >> the motion? >> yes. >> a motion. >> commissioner wan moves. do i hear a second? >> i will second. >> commissi

is five foot two _ metro said patty stephenson is five foot two and there she is on the floor— footterrible image in the light of the fact we can't escape the fact that it will be part of the thinking on this that the man who is accused of the crime, who is subject to criminal proceedings, not even entered a plea yet, this is no judgement on his guilt or innocence, but the man accused of the crime is a serving metropolitan police officer. and this is what people think of as the people responsible for their safety, terrible, if you like, the optics or the optics are terrible for the police.— like, the optics or the optics are terrible for the police. that's why the are terrible for the police. that's why they are damned _ terrible for the police. that's why they are damned if _ terrible for the police. that's why they are damned if they - terrible for the police. that's why they are damned if they do - terrible for the police. that's why they are damned if they do and i they are damned if they do and damned if they don't and that's why passions have run so high in this case. there ar

this is fremont boulevard near stephenson boulevard. there appears to be a body at the scene. so this is a death investigation and what appears to be a search for a suspect. police have been basing operations out of an armored vehicle there but still have not told us exactly what led up to this and if they're looking for anymore suspects. we of course have calls into police for more information right now. we will have more updates as they become available from fremont this morning. >>> new, prince william is denying racism within the royal family. this is in response to his brother and sister in law's bomb shell tell all interview sunday. this morning as duke of cambridge paid a visit to a london school, reporters asked for a comment. he said "we are very much not a racist family." prince william said he is yet to speak with his brother about the interview but plans to do so. many of you were watching when they sat down exclusively with oprah winfrey. they told her there were questions within the family about how dark their son's skin color would be. william is the first membe

this is on fremont boulevard near stephenson boulevard. we have seen video from the area.re appears to be a body there and police appear to be searching for a suspect. but they haven't told us much about exactly what has been going on there. we've reached out and will let you know when we hear back. again, keeping our eye on this breaking news, what appears to be potentially a fatal shooting in fremont this morning. >>> also new, nasa's perseverance rover sending back wind sounds from mars. the super cam microphone located at the top of the rover's mast apart from searching for signs of ancient life during the two year mission perseverance is collecting samples that will eventually be sent back to earth for analysis. >>> a town cleaning up a huge mess following a mud slide. cars could be seen buried in several feet of sludge. a man described the moment it came crashing down near his home yesterday. >> it came down in a wall of water. my shed went first. the shed floated down to here, broke up. part of it's here. part of it's on grundy. that pickup truck slid into my car, p

look for democrats in michigan, like congresswoman haley stephenson in new york, and those in the heartlandsee where those democrats come down the line. also look at the texas democratic coalition to see where they fall. this is a much more nuanced approach than i think just left versus right. i think it is really going to play a role here. jonathan: just a word on the pandemic and vaccines. some news for the audience, the eu is open to the u.k. for discussions about the astra vaccine. 79 percent efficacy, 100 percent efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalization. there was a concern several months ago that we could see vaccine nationalism really start to take hold. there's been pressure on governments to secure supply and maybe distribute some of that to the rest of the world. what are we seeing from this administration and the last cabal of days -- last couple of days? kevin: president biden did not really specify a timetable that the united states will be distributing this surplus. can you believe we are saying that, this surplus we have of the vaccines? i am struck thi

>> no, on that note, i agree, president stephenson. we've heard today from climate activists, union workers, and department staff, so i'm in favor of pushing this out as quickly as possible and pushing forward what we've heard a lot of speakers today call for. >> thank you, commissioner. all right. so i think what's next up is for a motion to be made to make the amendments as they were stated by charles. do i hear a motion? commissioner wald. do i hear a second? and i can't see everybody. sorry. seconded by commissioner chu, thank you. and then, we vote on the amendment, and then, we're going to have another motion after that. so can we do a roll call vote, please, on the amendment? >> clerk: yes. okay. i will call the roll call vote on the amendment. [roll call] >> all right. the amendment passes. do i hear a motion to approve the amendment -- or not approve the amendment -- to push the resolution forward -- the resolution? >> the motion? >> yes. >> a motion. >> commissioner wan moves. do i hear a second? >> i will second. >> commissi

>> that we are more than our worst mistake, like brian stephenson said.en we was young. but as adults, we are out here contributing to the community and helping other youth to prevent them from prevent them ending up in prison. that's what i hope people get out of this podcast. it's not about me becoming a celebrity, because i'm too old for that. it's about helping the youth. it's about me helping the youth stay out of prison. if we could save one person from ending up in prison and the same situation that i found myself in when i was 17 years old, then our job is done with the podcast. >> right because what you're really doing is looking at the criminal justice system through the lens of suave's personal experience. what did you learn throughout these 30 years about the system itself that you hope to address? >> alicia, suave spent years in solitary confinement, years. already, that's unjust. and i learned -- i don't want to reveal too much, because the podcast is all about these cliffhangers, but there's this extraordinary abuse in the criminal justice

. >> reporter: stephenson says em general was a drop shipping company which means he relied on third party companies to fulfill his orders. he said he started filling masks before he realized how difficult they were to come by. >> google analytics was recommending it as a product to sell. i had no idea there was a pandemic. >> rodney was doing everything he could do to fulfill those orders. and a short delay in time does not equate to a mind state of trying to defraud somebody. >> reporter: according to the indictment, many customers complained and asked for refunds. stevenson says he couldn't provide those refunds because his credit card processing company, electronic commerce, froze his account. in an email statement, an attorney for that company tells me, quote, electronic commerce pulled the plug on mr. stevenson's ability to process credit card sales to stop the sell of fraud masks that em general could not get or deliver during a severe ppe shortage in february and march of last year. >> it is terrifying to think of young entrepreneurs in america, especially young blak entrepre

we are from betsy stephenson about the post pandemic recovery.at the opportunities in the japanese markets, as we had to the tokyo and seoul open. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ shery: welcome to "bloomberg daybreak: asia." from bloomberg's world headquarters in new york. haidi: asian markets have open for trade. asian stocks a cautious but steady open with inflation at the top of investors mind. a big treasury auction will keep the bond market on edge. china and the u.s. and the alaska summit without a clear path forward differences on tariffs, and security threats from tech. and the fed president of richmond said set for a strong year. we hear this hour from tom barkin. sophie: live in hong kong at the credit suisse asian investment conference (aic) we will speak with representatives. shery: japan and south korea coming online, a mixed picture. the nikkei and topics down -- topix down since the boj policy framework changes how last week. real estate and materials they declines. the topix down almost 1%. the bank of japan said it will focus stock purcha

brian stephenson of the equal justice initiative once told met racial inequity has created a kind ofbelle wilkerson writes in her book that the caste system white supremacy constructs is unyielding in its durability because its very invisibility is what gives it power and longevity. the result is african-americans being viewed with suspicion and held at the bottom of the social order no matter how education or the state of our finances. what is not invisible is the impact of white supremacy and those who enforce it. the clearest example is the january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol by white supremacists, egged on by a white supremacist president intent on overturning the election he lost. last year, a white woman called the cops falsely claiming a black man was threatening her in central park after he asked her to follow the rules and put her dog on a leash. barbecue becky called the cops in 2018 on two black men grilling in an oakland, california park. permit patty called the cops that same year on an 8-year-old black girl selling bottled water outside her own home in san franci