all right, unmute yourself, you have two minutes. you're unmuted but we can't hear you in the room. ms. felina, we can circle back, it looks like there is a mike issue in your end. otherwise, any additional public comment. okay, i will try one more time. >> please unmute and you'll have two minutes. okay, it looks like we're still having an issue on ma will i na's side. but we have another hand raised, mr. williams, if you would like to unmute yourself, you have two minutes. >> speaker: thank you, it was a little confusing on my end. commissioners, mr. dennis williams, can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> speaker: okay, perfect. i am the executive director of filmore community development also a resident here at plaza east. i've been contacting ms. tania the executive director of you guys organization to no avail. and also ms. kendra who deals with that committee which i'm a head of the advisory committee also. with the president ms. martha. we have not been getting any contact back pertaining to the rfps that is coming up or cancellations of our capitol improvements. we have not goe

caller, your line is unmuted. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is nancy barnes and represent stantech today. sinsh 2012 when the program initiated stantech and partners pcl construction and joe hill consulting engineers have provided over $2.5 million in community benefits including half a million in direct financial contribution and 10 thousand hours of volunteer hours within the community and within schools. our outreach to different firms or different beneficiaries are comprised of building deep relationships and long-term relationships in order to provide continuous service. we look for beneficiaries with proven performance and responsive and when possible for force multiplication and in that case we may work with teachers to reach additional students. we work hard to create a career pipeline that starts with promoting stem in schools to job training, to internships and that has been a benefit of both funneling talented individuals to jobs that improve overall economic outlook and provide firms like mine and sfpuc with future employee

. >> caller i've unmuted your phone you have 2 minutes. >> thank you and good afternoon that is peter the director for the trust. welcome the new commissioners looking forward to working with you both it would be nice to see commissioner stacy as chair, i hope she'll be the president i think she's engaged and works well with the public one thing i'm hoping whoever is president to have something that commissioner asked has brought to the commission that is when the request to be added to the advanced calendar for when i expect response from staff and requests are interesting because they're not motion i'd like to see commissioners make moments other than just the staff recommendation. and didn't happen much we know that is will be an issue on the future agenda if it didn't happen perhaps the president will ask if you agree and if it makes to to the advanced calendar it is adoption the reason owe raise there good requests made not past gone outstanding u unasked her and finally, a response but recently a year commissioner asked information how what would happen if future water sales wer

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caller you are unmuted.ou, commissioners i'm marie carr at 2447 jackson street i'm the building to the east of bob korman's building. and i apologize i'm not there in person like charles i have a baby and a 5 year old daughter. we are the 5 years we lived in our unit have been unable to open the windows to the bedroom. any bedrooms along the wall that shares the build with bob corp man's building fear of debee fall nothing our children's window and their room. the roof has very hazzard us materials. i don't know how they have not tipped over yet. cannot sleep at night it has been a nightmare. mr. korman has no interest in taking care of his own building but no interest in taking care of the neighbors as well. at the end of the day this is absolutely not a model project. this is jokingly, the winchester mystery house. the pet project mr. korman's and abandons, which in violation of city rules as far as multiunit building being abandon. pigeons inside. health issues. but the least this notice of abatement need

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let me unmute. hello caller? are you here to make public comment? >> speaker: yes i am. >> you have three minutes to make public comment. i would like to let you know that you have three minutes to make public comment and i will let you know when your time begins and at 30-second mark i will also give you a warning. so let me begin your time and your time starts now. >> speaker: good morning, if you can get a chance to raise their hands for public comment and not just skip through very quickly. i had my hand up during the general public comment and skipped over. i attempted to inquire via email yesterday and got not response. one, why is the meeting not at city hall? the audio is extremely difficult to hear and i cannot hear anything that the commissioners are saying only the secretary. this change makes it very difficult for public to participate in the transparent process. i also encourage to you ep hold transparent and release the recording of the sunshine task force which is to release mccroy's, if you're all calendaring why do you need to asser

you are on mute so you have to unmute yourself. angela: got it should after all -- got it. after all these years. this is very exciting. i love we are doing this with my digital equity friends across the country. i am the executive director of the national digital inclusion alliance. i live in columbus, ohio. this is an important time for the work we do. this webinar is incredibly timely. this is a moment for us to recognize the possibilities of digital equity. when i say digital equity, one of the first things we did when we got started was create a definition for digital equity. this is the same definition that was included in congress's language. it is the idea that all individuals and communities have full access to information communication technology to do whatever they need to do. full participation in our economy, our society, our democracy. i think we should say -- sometimes people don't like the word equity. when we talk about digital equity, we are talking about really specific work. work these folks are doing. we have over 1900 affiliates. folks on the ground do

you have to unmute. unmute yourself." [ laughter ] "sorry, gang i gotta hop off for a sec. the cops are here." [ laughter ] by the way, the only thing more suspicious than the payments themselves, was how gaetz labeled them on venmo. >> the documents show between 2017 and 2019, then congressman gaetz allegedly made 27 payments to the women, totaling more than $10,000. under the reason for the payment, gaetz allegedly wrote notes including, "gift" and "just because." >> seth: oh, come on. "just because" is such a bad cover for a crime. i mean, it's a bad cover for anything. if you come home one day and give your wife a diamond necklace and she says, "why did you get me this?" and you say, "just because," and then try to walk away, your arm gonna get grabbed. [ laughter ] also, don't you know first rule of venmo? you're supposed to give your payments joke reasons, not shady ones. like, when i get a venmo from andy samberg that says "doink reattachment surgery --" [ laughter ] i know that just means we went

please unmute yourself. can you hear me? yes. we can. hi, my name is yolanda marshall.'m a resident of plaza east. i've been a resident for more than 15 year i just like to agree with what dennis williams is saying. it has been a hostage take over from the black community to illegal immigrants. i just feel like we need better leadership down here. martha hollins has been our president for over 19 years. i think it's time for a reelection and plaza east. we need stronger, younger leadership. and that's all i have to say. we need to have a reelection plaza east. thank you. any additional public comment on item number seven? okay. item number eight is the committee report. we do not have a committee meeting for november or we will not have one for december. so we continue this report until january of 2025. that being said, any public comment? that we can go to item number nine. this is the consent agenda. we have one consent item for the meeting minutes of last month's meeting on october 24th. any comments from commissioners regarding the meeting minutes? then we can open

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speaker you are have been unmuted this is item 8. >> i'm past 8 going for comment on number 9. silva next item >> next item item 9, general public comment. members may address board on matters within the board's jurisdiction and are not on today's calendar. >> we will hear public upon comment this is general public comment for matteros today's agenda. and -- we have one person. >> have another. you know who i am. yea. we are all bummed out today for good reasons. i think it is measure important this san francisco lead and inspire. 25 year ago this month voters passed prop e created this agency. i helped campaign for that. that proposition directs you i the charter to credit a safe bicycle network. we have an opportunity to do this. and you know this is something we need to do. we need a bike network the biking and rolling plan. that service people of all ages and abilities. 25 years after founded you need to create that plan. so this people of all age and abilities can cycle safely. we wrote you a letter but some of the need to use best practice stoornsd not like whatever we de

you've been unmuted. this is herbert weiner. first of all i would like to commend commissioner aiken on her civility in chairing meetings. she did it in a somewhat elegant fashion, and i commend her for it. but i would like to see her replacement on the board. be a motorist, someone has to represent drivers in the city, and the board should have a motorist sitting on the board. thank you, thank you. no other callers. thank you. secretary silva, we will now close public comment on item nine. secretary silva, please call the next item. places you on item ten. your consent calendar. let's see. these items are considered to be routine and acted upon by a single vote. unless a member of the board or public wishes to consider an item separately. for all speakers providing public comment, please identify which item number you are speaking to. item 10.1 requesting the comptroller to allott funds and to draw warrants against such funds available or will be available in payment of the listed claim item a in the agenda against the item. 10

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please unmute the first caller. you have two minutes. >> morning commissioners. my name is matthew [indiscernible] a board member of the [indiscernible] club. [audio cut out] right here at sharp park. this interpretive sign is a critical opportunity to honor the struggle- >> excuse me matthew, can you hear me? would you start again, because we blipped out for a second. i heard you introduce yourself, so you are a board member of the what club? >> the [indiscernible] club. >> alright. please go ahead. >> sure. we are italian american organization and we are deeply committed to preserving the community rich history. i just like to highlight the importance overlooked role italians played in sharp park. many italian immigrants including my grand fatherers were labeled [indiscernible] many were detained here at sharps park. this interpretive sign is a critical opportunity to honor the struggles faced by all groups [indiscernible] greatly support the effort of the japanese american community to share story through the project and their experiences essential is deeply s

necessary we appreciate all your work and public comment of the two presentations and a hand i'll unmute hi please let us know who you are and you have limited to 3 minutes per speaker. >> that is dr. palm eerie was curious about the check and balance complainant what are the protections for whistleblower? one of the problems with reporting reporting to make sure that whistleblower complaint but here it is high especially low level employees and patients and families of patients so i would like to know how as well as they're protected. thank you. >> the whistleblowers are protected. >> thank you commissioners comments and questions commissioner giraudo i have to comment i submitted a number of questions and want to thank you for your timely response and understanding my questions having dealt with compliance department a bit. where it cp mc it is important i really appreciated your timing response to. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> commissioner chow. >> yes. (clearing throat) thank you for presentation and the coverage of such a broad range of areas that compliance um, office has. i wa

you've been unmuted.this is herbert weiner, my concern is that service has been dwindling progressively and the i think the cuts have to be made within mta. that's very important. i think that muni management has to make certain sacrifices, like for instance, if a manager's earning above 100,000 a year should have their salaries frozen until there's a crisis, alleviate also, objects should be frozen as much as possible, and the bicyclists have to pay their share. the riders have made a suffices in the form of increased bus fares. so it's time for other parties to step up to the plate. thank you so much for your comment, mr. weiner. if there is no additional comment, we will close public comment on item 15. directors, are there any clarifying questions or any comments for sean and julie? director chen thank you chair. if i could, i know dylan faber has raised a point about the 30 short and if you could respond to that please. sure. yeah. so we also talked with chinatown trip and you know they raised simila

are you unmuted? i am can you hear me. >> yes. >> awesome. >> sorry i started speakil restart. i'm [inaudible] with the housing right's committee of san francisco. you heard from fred and others in the chamber the hutted building for san francisco in cries. my team has the honor of working in hud buildings [inaudible]. primarily if d 5 and 10 you know are black communities. the hudz code enforcement out reach program is important to ensure this hud residents get repairs they need to live in dignified housing. as you know many have buildings and properties and horrible condition there have been neglect from owners and enept management that does not keep things up and neglect from other governmental aejzs hud and san francisco housing authority. and what we see is mold and [inaudible]. [inaudible]. . collapsed roofs. fred give your case of. and this is not it is prevalent in all the hud buildings. does not matter what type they are. a case is multigeneration family living in the bayview where a family of 5 three are disabled seniors have been living without a workrefrigerator hea

we're going to ask rebecca to unmute and ask her question question. hi there. thank you so for such a wonderful lecture, just absolutely loved it. i cannot tell you i'm so thrilled to read your book. thank you. i have always. i come from horticulture and ecology perspective and i've always i've always thought of as perhaps more of an energy like and i'm like an energy that animates matter literally and and really should be more the focus of physicists as one of the energies of, the universe and especially as you were talking about enter p and life and the and the sort of the way that life as an organizer. again i just keep going to this idea of life as an energy and i wonder what you think about that and if you could say a little bit more about entropy and life as well. sure. yeah. i mean, no doubt that, you know, i was saying, like, we don't have the consensus of life yet and we certainly don't have that beautiful, succinct equation that would explain life, the sort of a fundamental phenomenon. and so scientists are continually debating the fundamental nature

looks like you might be muted when you see here me, are you able to unmute yourself? ok? looks like she's going to try okay. >> well, we're going to try to get of the dr back later on in the program. but in the meantime, let's see if we can move on to our next segment here. >> ok? so it looks we are going to go ahead and move into commercial. we will be right back. >> all right. welcome back los muertos celebrations unfold across the bay area this weekend. and the moment does holds special significance for the city of half moon bay, which continues to recover from last year's tragic mass shooting. joining us live to share more about the of that plan today is doctor belinda hernandez, aria, the founder of the nonprofit, dallas, which works to support the local latino and farmer community. good morning to we have your mic working. >> morning right. of course. thank you so much for joining us. of course, doctor, our hearts continue to go out to you and the community affected by the tragedy of last year. >> can you walk us through the significance of dia de los muertos for th