okay. >> you unmuted all the phone numbers? >> yes. >> he can also use his iphone and just click on a link and he would have the video. >> got it. well, i've got him on the phone with me, and i'm on the meeting on my phone, but i believe my phone is muted. >> no, i unmuted you. >> oh, okay. >> there we are. we're on. >> mr. olsen, we wanted to give you a chance to warm up. >> yeah. i'm sorry about that. >> i'm not sure what happened, but . . . >> i don't know. i spend half my day on zoom. it always works fine. charles olsen. i'll assume you didn't hear anything i said. i'm representing the regent of the university of california, and we oppose the request for reconsideration of this matter because we feel the appellant has not met his burden to demonstrate that there's new or different evidence that was not available on may 27 that would affect the outcome of the earlier board decision. we submitted a full brief on this issue last week. if people have had a chance to read it, we covered all the issues in that brief. if not, just

you'll be prompted that your line is unmuted. >> hi. can you hear me, please? >> clerk: yes, thank you. >> hello? can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, you may speak. >> hi, thank you so much. my name is nancy levins, and i'm in district 7, and i'm a small property owner. i listened to this about 45 minutes. you poor people have been listening to it all day, but i think one of the things that's been very clear is this is a nuanced situation. i'm a small property owner, and i fall into that category of people that are penalized if i don't get my rent. so how about this: how about going back and rethinking this? how about carving out some provisions for small property owners, say people who own six or less units because we're the bread and butter owners of property here in san francisco. it's true that there are o out-of-state people that own properties that may allow their tenants not to pay rent, but that brings up that whole other issue. you've got to step back and make this not available to all tenants. i agree with means testing or

>> has my line been unmuted? [inaudible] >> my name is steven crest mulverson, and i own a 500 unit building. like many other small business owners, i'm hurting. we're at a deep moment in our country where the most vulnerable among us are under attack. by the most vulnerable, i refer to landlords and other people who own property and make money off that property. we all know that poem that starts with, first they came for the landlords, and i said nothing because i wasn't a landlord. this legislation would divert landlords' attention from the important tasks of property management, namely requests for maintenances, and deciding arbitrarily whether people should own or not own pets. i urge you to listen to the landlords who are speaking in opposition to this measure and not to the many people who are facing difficulties in this situation. i urge you to side with the landlords and not the people by voting no on this measure. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. we have 132 listeners with 62 in queue. thank you. next spe

you may unmute yourself. >> i hope you can see and hear me. it's not unmuted. i had done it. >> you're good. you're muted again. >> i'm sorry. all right. i want to begin by thanking our chair for this very important hearing and to wish her the very best as she is quarantined. and i certainly want to express my condolences to ms. bucati in a real sense this hearing is dedicated to her and her loss. i do want to say because it was remarked that we should be meeting in here in the nation's capital, i do want everyone to know that there is a reason that i think the chair has chosen not to meet in the nation's capital. if there are hot spots still, this is the hottest spot, the very last to open and it's only squeaked open a very little bit. with the mass demonstrations that have occurred here because of the death of george floyd, i'm not sure when the nation's capital will be open. so i'll depend on the best judgment of the chair. my question is for mr. costa. this region is the most public transportation dependent region in the country. now, i know i speak for oth

you'll be prompted that your line is unmuted. >> hello. this is salman. i'm a property owner as well as property manager for several units in san francisco. i've been on this call for several hours. i'd just like to say that we should all look to ourselves and to not look to divide. we see what's happening with that on the national level with a divisive leader and administration. first and foremost, this legislation, my biggest concern with it, it's not helping the constituents. some of the other areas, specifically, san jose and others, they say it's not constitutional to enact something like this. if it does go through, we're looking at it'll be repealed in the courts in six months, and a lot of tenants will not have saved up for that rent that they owe, and i don't want to do that in the city of san francisco unless it's absolutely the last option. what i think this board of supervisors is they're kind of creating a plan to make the landlords look bad within a few months, and that's maybe a year, eight months. that's something

please unmute your line. >> i'm unmuted. >> clerk: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: good morning, mr.ush. how are you doing? >> hello, chair ronen. >> supervisor ronen: absolutely. do you have any opening comments before we ask you questions? >> i just wanted to know that the synchronousty of the topic we just had on charter allowing noncitizens to participate. it's very much in line with the same issue of expanding inclusivity in our government and public participation. this particular seat on ethics is designed to public outrage and public participation. other seats are designed for audits and law and so forth. and so i'm very pleased that this seat that i'm being considered for. thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. and i know that you have tremendous history and experience with the ethics commission, as well as city government in general. and although january feels like a lifetime ago, it's been a little more than four months since the initial bust by the fbi, what's been revealed to them an extensive web of corruption, bribery and in city government. i'm thankful the

the system will indicate you have unmuted. any callers who wish to comment on item number one. >> madam chair, there are no callers who wish to speak. >> thank you. public comment is closed on number 1. thank you for coming back. no comments or questions from my colleagues, seeing none, like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation, madam clerk, please have a roll call vote. [roll call vote taken] >> clerk: three aye. thank you very much. >> item number 2, ordinance extending for additional two years, through july 1, 2022, authority under the charter to the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to enter into grant agreements under the sfpuc green infrastructure grant program with terms of up to 20 years and without commission approval. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 4156550001, 1457369773, then press pound and then press pound again. if you have not already done so, please press star three to line up to speak. it will

unmute yourself. unmute yourself. thank you. >> thank you. i am very concerned about what i saw in georgia. there has been a lot of chaos there. i would hope we would not consider high turnout a problem. that is what we are seeking. today i have heard a lot of criticism of vote by mail. and is vote by mail uniquely susceptible to fraud? >> not particularly, and i think it is quite alarming. the conversation in which we have talked about money, about how much things might cost, we have talked about fraud, and we have not actually really focused in terms, the secretaries of states have two states that are in litigation at the moment, talk about people and particularly talk about the large african-american relations in each of their states who are susceptible to covid and particularly african-americans who are suffering from other conditions including disabled populations. when we talk about absentee convictions that secretary merrill talked about, six convictions he said, and i do not know the nature of those, but that is very few as has been p

you'll be notified that your line is unmuted. >> hello. my name is lisa, and i am a strong -- small building owner in district number 2 in the marina, and i strongly oppose 200375. i take pride in the four-unit building i own, and i always keep it in tip-top shape for my renters. i pay all my utility bills, mortgage bills, property taxes, and maintenance bills on time. this bill will make it nearly impossible for small property owners like myself to recoup the rent, and it places the financial burden of covid-19 on small business owners who have fixed mortgages, employees, property taxes, and maintenance expenses. it is not fair and equitable to the property owner and puts the burden of this pandemic solely on the owners. the water company is not supplying water without taking payment. the mortgage company is not foregoing payments. owners of rental properties are providing a much needed safe home for so many residents, and this proposal is putting them in jeopardy if it passes. this, along with the closure of the court system, would allow

your two minutes starts now. >> clerk: caller, unmute yourself if you are muted. >> i unmuted them. >> clerk: oh, ok. they've had their hand raised for a while. maybe they stepped away. caller, if you are there your time to give public comment is now. if you wish to speak to a different item, you may stay in the queue. we'll give you about 10 seconds and then i'll mute you and hopefully you'll come back when you are ready to speak. it appears the caller is not by their phone. i'm going to go ahead and mute him again. >> thank you. >> so there was no public comment on the president's announcements. our next item is general public comment. the bic will take public comment on matters within the commission jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. any comments? >> i would like to remind any callers listening, if you would like to speak to any item, please raise your hand so that item only and to raise your hand, you will press star 3. if you wish to speak to this item, press star 3. let me see if this caller is -- this is the same caller from before and they didn't lower their hand b

for those on hold, wait until the system indicates you ever been unmuted -- you have been unmuted.ny callers that wish to comment on items 9 through 12? >> madame chair there are no callers in the queue. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. public comment for items 9 through 12 is closed. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i'd like to be added as cosponsor to 11 and 12. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. noted. seeing no comments from my colleagues, let's make a motion to move items 9 through 12 to the board with a positive recommendation. roll call vote, please. >> on the motion, supervisor walton aye, mandelman aye, fewer aye. you have three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. can you read item 13. >> item 13, resolution approving a building lease agreement and sublease agreement each by and between the city and 833 bryant l.p. for the supportive housing unit for homeless households. 30 year term extension up to 10 years as a -- members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item, please call the number on your screen, enter the i.d. and then pre

you need to unmute. chairwoman, ranking member ,nd members of the subcommittee my name is kristen clark and i serve as the president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on how we can ensure states hold safe and fair elections during the covid-19 pandemic. the lawyers committee for civil rights under law in the organization i lead is at the forefront of the battle for equal rights since it was created in 1963 at the request of president kennedy. provides resources in combating racial discrimination. simply put khmer mission is to secure equal justice under law. we have been a leader in many of the most important voting rights cases in our nation and we also lead election protection which is the largest and longest running nonpartisan voter protection program in the country. i am here today to sound the alarm on what we have seen in recent primaries including two days ago when voters went to the polls in georgia, south c

can you unmute please? >> thank you mister chairman thank you to the witnessesfor coming out today . joining us. i want to thank mister ali for coming back. last time we met before this committee we were discussing challenges facing communities on the frontline of climate change so we talked about environmental and health risks which disproportionately harm unities of color and low income communities . we talk about coastal floods or sing planned relocations in louisiana and alaska and other exposure to air pollution, increasing the risk of asthma attacks in unities of color and today we're talking about the same disparity following the same line communities and this time in the context of infectious disease and ask. a growing data shows the extent to which covid-19 is disproportionately affecting minority communities . poor air quality's in these communities is strongly associated with a high risk of death from covid-19 and a recent harvard study goes a long term exposure to air pollution such as particula

sorry, i unmuted myself at the same time as you unmuted me. thank you for this opportunity to speak and all the board of ed, i appreciate you guys. i am a restorative educator. during this historic uprising, the people created an opportunity to stop the horror of unchecked totalitarian violence. in order to truly serve and protect our black and indigenous lgbtq children, we need not only to defund the police and actually commit to restorative, transformative justice, but also take a look at ourselves. we've gone from having a transformative department to having zero transformative coaches, none. i'm at a loss for where the transformative money is going to go. if we're going to dismantle white supremacy thoughts, we need to show that we value transformative justice. in service of that, we need to take a hard look at how our district -- >> thank you. >> thank you. [indiscernible] -- >> thanks very much to the board for the opportunity to speak. we were shocked to learn that this school would be closed. we've been privileged to be a part of this

>> has my line been unmuted? [inaudible] >> my name is steven crest mulverson, and i own a 500 unit building. like many other small business owners, i'm hurting. we're at a deep moment in our country where the most vulnerable among us are under attack. by the most vulnerable, i refer to landlords and other people who own property and make money off that property. we all know that poem that starts with, first they came for the landlords, and i said nothing because i wasn't a landlord. this legislation would divert landlords' attention from the important tasks of property management, namely requests for maintenances, and deciding arbitrarily whether people should own or not own pets. i urge you to listen to the landlords who are speaking in opposition to this measure and not to the many people who are facing difficulties in this situation. i urge you to side with the landlords and not the people by voting no on this measure. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. we have 132 listeners with 62 in queue. thank you. next spe

i will unmute the first caller. >> yes, good morning. my name is zach. i'm calling with the aclu of northern california. we are proud of this important stand with san francisco youth leaders and encourage you to vote in favor of placing vote 16 on the november ballot. as you heard today, freelance's jung voters are vital members of the public. and also promote civic engagement by allowing young members of our community to get out and vote. so thank you. >> clerk: can we have the next speaker, please. >> hi, there. my name is -- okay. my name is millo. i'm 28 years old and i'm a former san franciscan, who now lives in east bay. i wanted to vote when i was 16 and my experience at that time made me now work for the national youth association. thanks for hearing my public comment. i support the charter amendment, because i think 16 and 17-year-olds would be affected by the decisions we make today for maybe 70, 80 years of their lives, where the older voters may be affected for 10, 20 more years. so i think younger voters can serve the biggest say in decision

you want to been on muted you also unmute yourself.member to do that. considering the size of the audience of this program we can't guarantee we will get to all the different people who have questions but we will do our best to get to as many people as we can. without further ado, i would like to welcome liz and daniel to come to our program. >> hello gavin, thank you so much for having me back thanks for coming, good to see you professor mandel. >> hello gavin, hello liz. >> we are here to talk about your new book "the lost tradition of economic equality in america, 1600-1870". >> it's great. it's good to be here. >> i wonder if we could start with native americans. because one of the big themes that seem to me when i read your book "the lost tradition of economic equality in america, 1600-1870" was that native americans really influenced not only this project itself but also early american ideas about economic equality. could you tell us how native americans gave birth to this project and to early american ideas about economic equali

please unmute your line. >> i'm unmuted. >> clerk: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: good morning, mr. hello, chair ronen. >> supervisor ronen: absolutely. do you have any opening comments before we ask you questions? >> i just wanted to know that the synchronousty of the topic we just had on charter allowing noncitizens to participate. it's very much in line with the same issue of expanding inclusivity in our government and public participation. this particular seat on ethics is designed to public outrage and public participation. other seats are designed for audits and law and so forth. and so i'm very pleased that this seat that i'm being considered for. thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. and i know that you have tremendous history and experience with the ethics commission, as well as city government in general. and although january feels like a lifetime ago, it's been a little more than four months since the initial bust by the fbi, what's been revealed to them an extensive web of corruption, bribery and in city government. i'm thankful the illegal maneuvers are bei

>> has my line been unmuted? [inaudible] >> my name is steven crest mulverson, and i own a 500 unit building. like many other small business owners, i'm hurting. we're at a deep moment in our country where the most vulnerable among us are under attack. by the most vulnerable, i refer to landlords and other people who own property and make money off that property. we all know that poem that starts with, first they came for the landlords, and i said nothing because i wasn't a landlord. this legislation would divert landlords' attention from the important tasks of property management, namely requests for maintenances, and deciding arbitrarily whether people should own or not own pets. i urge you to listen to the landlords who are speaking in opposition to this measure and not to the many people who are facing difficulties in this situation. i urge you to side with the landlords and not the people by voting no on this measure. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. we have 132 listeners with 62 in queue. thank you. next spe

for those on hold, wait until the system indicates you ever been unmuted -- you have been unmuted. operation, is there any callers that wish to comment on items 9 through 12? >> madame chair there are no callers in the queue. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. public comment for items 9 through 12 is closed. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i'd like to be added as cosponsor to 11 and 12. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. noted. seeing no comments from my colleagues, let's make a motion to move items 9 through 12 to the board with a positive recommendation. roll call vote, please. >> on the motion, supervisor walton aye, mandelman aye, fewer aye. you have three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. can you read item 13. >> item 13, resolution approving a building lease agreement and sublease agreement each by and between the city and 833 bryant l.p. for the supportive housing unit for homeless households. 30 year term extension up to 10 years as a -- members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item, please call the number on your screen, enter

to direct the question-and-answer session we will unmute. just now there are north of 500 people participating so we will try to get as many questions as possible. we. richard to be brief so we can hear from many people. let's unmute the first question are. >> as a reminder to ask a question, please click on the raised hand icon on your window. when called on hit the unmute button and state your name and affiliation followed by your question. >> caller: i am with facebook and the state department. thanks, what is going well, any positive trends happening to double down on. >> the default option toward the negative. one thing that isn't present in this world, simply because for the first death in the 21st-century we had two world wars and the cold war. the fact that that is not defining is a good thing. it may seem bizarre to talk positive things in the area of health. lifespans are far longer today than a generation or two generations ago. all sorts of diseases have been eradicated. let's put aside the recession we find ourselves in as a res

please unmute yourself, karen. >> am i unmuted now? i'm sorry, i didn't know. >> yes, please proceed. >> there has been a growing demand for constitutional clarity by the public. in some cases, they are apparently been muted by government as they reach the courts. and there has been an ongoing discussion about this on bullock conspiracy. i'm part of supporting litigation in florida and would , like to use this particular executive order as an example where, although this governor has been called out as a positive example of managing the crisis in many ways, one of the executive orders alone talks about quarantine, but these standards have to do with four states, including anyone coming from an area of substantial community spread. orders like this have been in place for months, and they also entail criminal penalties. they are not updated, not scaled to curve flattening, so the public is baffled as to when and where to get the constitutional rarity as to when police power has gone on for too long, gone too far, so rather than learning

you will hear that your line has been unmuted. >> hi.name is truk, and i am actually not afraid of being evicted right now. i'm calling in for people who don't know this is happening or who can't call in. i strongly ask the landlords to check their own privilege. if they own property in the city, they have a lot more than a lot of us. i just urge you to continue to fight for all of us and consider our most vulnerable. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. hello, caller? next speaker, please. >> hello? >> clerk: hi. you have two minutes to speak. >> hi. my name is brittany henry, and i am a current renter in district 9, the sunset mission district. i have lived in the bay area my entire life, as have my parents and as have their parents. i am calling to support this legislation, and i ask that the supervisors do the same. i am a memory kber ber of u.s.d to safe the mission, and i work on a -- save the mission, and i work on a number of other cultural organizations in s.f. because of my own health concerns and other concern

you need to unmute yourself. mr. roy. one of the parts of the whole discussion in the in my opinion tomorrow talking about the communist party in china, no question, they intentionally concealed the severity covid-19. and while doing so, they stockpiled a lot of medical supplies, ppe's, and a host of things that would happen should have an certainly useful globally and is alarming to me looking at some stats that we came up with. during this time, the imported lots of ppe's in different supplies. surgical masks, turned 78 percent. surgical gowns, up 72 percent. in all of these while they were hiding in the world what's taking place. just how severe this good one. we sent them someplace too. if and a lot of this could've been used to help many people in the front lines and yet we did not know just how severe the same was. my first question would be deeply we should act on some sort of action to ensure that china's held accountable for what they did. >> i agree with your assessment of china's accountability. i don't know th

go ahead. >> i don't know how to push -- unmute it. >> you've been unmuted. >> okay. my name is bill graziano. i live in the bayview. we have a street called bridge view. so i'm wondering if there will be some confusion. i notice that it said bridge view way, but bridge view street is in the bayview. so it's just a comment. >> that's a helpful comment. thank you, sir, for the comment. >> are there any other callers? >> that completes the queue. >> we will close public comment. we can -- i can schedule this on any thursday by 10:00 in the morning for the following monday. so what i would suggest is that we continue this to the call of the chair so that we don't put it on multiple agendas. when we have figured this out to everybody's satisfaction, i think we all know what we're doing here, plus we just got a very helpful comment that may not have -- you may not have heard before from the member of the public. if there's no objection, i would like to make a motion to continue item number three to the call of the chair, and on that motion, a roll call, please, madam clerk

you were unmuted the last 20 seconds. >> s. fewer: colleagues we had these items last week and there was a discussion around the increase for iahh workers and there was a difference of opinion and happy to say we'll have an amendment today. so we have heard the report already and also heard from the b.l.a. we have assessed and i just want to say i want to appreciate the mayor's budget office for working with me in the last week to address our concerns regarding the mcl increase for ihss workers the board unanimously passed legislation last year to put into place legislation co-authored by supervisor romen and myself. putting our equity principles into practice is critical. i'm happy we've been able to come to an agreement for our lowest wage worker and we have an amendment to introduce today. this amendment will restore 75% of the wage increase through the minimum compensation ordnance beginning september 1. i would like to read the amendment into record. to increase the human service agency in fiscal year 2020-2021 by for incr

unmute. are you there? did you unmute? he is not here. joe, you have to unmute. i think he is there, but -- you are still muted, joe. >> what are you want to do? >> mr. kennedy, you are speaking, but we can't hear you. >> are you there? we will come back to mr. kennedy. nus. is mr. cardin unmute. maybe there is a technical problem, i don't know. can you hear me now? >> yes. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman, for holding this important hearing. thank you to the expert witnesses we have before us. we all appreciate all of the word you able to do when you're allowed to do it. this february, there have been cdc beingom the sidelined. its experts have been overruled, and in the midst of a pandemic, this is unacceptable. dr. redfield, earlier this month, you expressed concern the cdc's public health message on covid-19 were not resonating with the public. dr. redfield, why hasn't the cdc held regular bdm briefings during the pandemic as the cdc has done during past public crises, where it can provide information directing the public anywhere t

[inaudible] >> rodney unmute yourself. [inaudible] thank you everyone i appreciate the opportunity to be here before i yield back, madam chair i would ask unanimous consent to enter into three items from 14 sections of state for federal funding. in a statement from the representative at one of his staffers who lives in maryland receiving multiple live absentee ballots in his address and i yield back. >> without objection. >> limited's close by saying this. i have listened to this hearing and i am so disappointed there is a little thing mr. secretary called the constitution of united states that allows us to do what we are doing today whether you like it or not that is the law i think it's so misleading to continually talk about fraud that you would punish the many to catch one? that is not the american way. for anyone. we talked about 83 ballots went to one address but if didn't catch that your office is responsible. you didn't get 83 ballots for those people think at some point we all have to do what's right for the peopl

please unmute yourself, karen. now? unmuted i'm sorry, i didn't know. >> yes, please proceed. there has been a growing demand for constitutional clarity by the public. some cases they are apparently been muted by government as they reach the has been an ere ongoing discussion about this on conspiracy. i'm part of supporting would ion in florida and like to use this particular executive order as an example where, although this governor out as a alled positive example of managing the ways, one of the xecutive orders alone talks about quarantine, but these standards have to do with four including anyone coming from an area of substantial community spread. been in ke this have place for months, and they also penalties.minal they are not updated, not scaled flattening, so the public is baffled as to when and get the constitutional rarity as to when police power long, gone for too too far, so rather than learning like, p rised examples we'll call it civil disobedience salon owner, hair how do general citizens nderstand that some of these orders, because of their constitutional infri

and please unmute. unmute, ms. beatty. >> thank you so much to ever ohairman and to ranking -- tw our chairman and to our ranking member. i certainly enjoyed hearing your testimony. housing, itlk about is very clear that we are on a cliff. evictions are on a cliff. and when you look at who is on the edge of that cliff, we are looking at individuals who look like me. we are looking at those individuals who might be homeless. when we think about where we are in the midst of this nation, whether it's covid-19, as ever chairman talked about in his opening -- our chairman talked about in his opening statement, will be look at the death rate in proportion to what african-americans, in particular, represent in this nation. and certainly those disparities are here in my district. so, when i think about who was at risk, the least of us are at risk. when i think about minority population, i think about those who are at risk because we are at an inflection point in this country with regard to diversity and inclusion, with rac

chair >> i forgot to unmute myself sorry. i actually think the law as written does accommodate what we've really learned, what a lot of us have learned and that is -- for many years, when we were growing up, inflation was a problem. people were imagining that they really had to watch carefully or inflation would move up and it would hurt people on fixed incomes more than anybody else what we've learned is that, you know, these disinflationary forces we've seen around the world for a quarter century, they're here to stay for a while, and we live in an era of continuing downward pressure on inflation. that gives us the ability to have very low levels of unemployment i don't think anyone hasn't learned hat. and i don't think it's going to be if you change the law to -- the situation will change, the economy is ever evolving, so i don't know that changing the law is what we need to do. i do think we get that, and i think economists broadly do get that now, andthat's why we're so eager to get back to where we were and below we wer

. >> clerk: caller, unmute yourself if you are muted. >> i unmuted them. >> clerk: oh, ok. they've had their hand raised for a while. maybe they stepped away. caller, if you are there your time to give public comment is now. if you wish to speak to a different item, you may stay in the queue. we'll give you about 10 seconds and then i'll mute you and hopefully you'll come back when you are ready to speak. it appears the caller is not by their phone. i'm going to go ahead and mute him again. >> thank you. >> so there was no public comment on the president's announcements. our next item is general public comment. the bic will take public comment on matters within the commission jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. any comments? >> i would like to remind any callers listening, if you would like to speak to any item, please raise your hand so that item only and to raise your hand, you will press star 3. if you wish to speak to this item, press star 3. let me see if this caller is -- this is the same caller from before and they didn't lower their hand but i'm going to

if you would like to speak at this time press star 3 to be unmuted. do we have anybody on the line? >> madam chair, no callers in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to continue this item to our next rules committee meeting. >> on that motion. >> shall we continue it to the call of the chair just in case? i would like to revise my motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> on that motion. supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> chair ronen. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you very much. could you please read item 1. ordinance amending the administrative code to include as a mandatory element in the definition of the term responsible substantiation of a record of safe performance on construction projects by the bidder or proposer on a public works or improvement project and to expressly require construction contract an weareds for all specific project delivery methods to be made only to responsible construction contractors. >> wonderful. we have bill barns here from the city administrator's of

unmute -- [laughter] >> i think you and juju might be able to hear me all the way in new york. in any event, do you see anything in the policies or programs of either presidential candidate that address at all the problems you describe in your book? >> well, look, in terms of this president, the policies are there to see. he's an incumbent, he's got a record of three and a half years. he is, in many ways, someone who, when he took the job, made it clear he did not buy into the value of a lot of his inheritance. and in many ways he was going out of his way to dismantle that inheritance. i'm quite critical of that, in large part because i don't think he had anything better to put in its place. selectively i think he's done some good things. i think he was right to call out china, quote-unquote, about some of its behaviors. i mentioned yugoslavia. and despite -- and ukraine i mentioned. and despite some of his policies on trade which give me heartburn, the opposition to the wto, there still has been some progress whether it's nafta 2.0, the usmca or some other bilateral or agreeme

brinkman, unmute. >> aye. >> dr. eaken? >> aye. >> heminger. and that is approved by unanimous approval. item 5, communication. >> before i get into the extensive directions here, i just wanted to say a few words because we are coming together in a tumultuous time in our city, our state, our country. and we are seeing ravage of a legacy of systemic racism that has been ignored and been overlooked for long period of time. and with that, there is so much rage with so many people and rightfully so and so much that is unjust and for whatever reason it seems in our society that for whatever reason without bloodshed, we don't move forward. we are meeting on blackout tuesday. the meeting was planned in advance. obviously as a public transit agency, our top imperative is economic opportunity for all. public transit is the engine for people to get to jobs and have opportunity. and for too long systemically the system has been designed to not go to place where is people of color live or displace people from the places where public transit is, and so i ju

if you would like to speak at this time press star 3 to be unmuted. do we have anybody on the line? >> madam chair, no callers in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to continue this item to our next rules committee meeting. >> on that motion. >> shall we continue it to the call of the chair just in case? i would like to revise my motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> on that motion. supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> chair ronen. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you very much. could you please read item 1. ordinance amending the administrative code to include as a mandatory element in the definition of the term responsible substantiation of a record of safe performance on construction projects by the bidder or proposer on a public works or improvement project and to expressly require construction contract an weareds for all specific project delivery methods to be made only to responsible construction contractors. >> wonderful. we have bill barns here from the city administrator's of

for those in the queue the system will say quote, your line has been unmuted, unquote. for those on cable channel 26 or via streaming link on sfgov.tv if you wish to speak on the item please call in by following the instructions on the screen dial 415-655-0001 and meeting i.d. 145-10 145-106-5676. has anyone connected to our call? >> i have one caller in the queue. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: thank you we're grateful for your leadership on this and the co-sponsors. it's a vital piece of legislation. now more than ever at this critical time when we see cases rising across california and businesses opening back people are going back to work and serving essential function you need to take care of their safety and the safety of their families and the community. it's critical not only for workers' rights but the public safety. thanks again. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. do we have any more callers? >> that completes the queue. >> clerk: mr. chair. >> thank you. hearing no further callers, public comment is now closed. supervisor haney would you like to make a mo