President yee good afternoon. Welcome to the june 25, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, would you please call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Brown not present. Fewer not present. Haney not present. Mandelman present. M mar present. Peskin present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee . Present. Mr. President , you have to a quorum. President yee thank you. Ladies and gentlemen would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee all right. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, michael, maya and kaleno, who record the meetings and make the transcript available to those online. Madame clerk, any communications . There are none to report. President yee today we are approving th
Peskin present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee . Present. Mr. President , you have to a quorum. President yee thank you. Ladies and gentlemen would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee all right. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, michael, maya and kaleno, who record the meetings and make the transcript available to those online. Madame clerk, any communications . There are none to report. President yee today we are approving the minutes from the may 21, 2019 board meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Okay. Motion made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor walton. These minutes will be approved after publ
Clerk we do expect commissioners melgar and johnson to be absent today and for commissioner moore to arrive later today. First up are continuances on your calendar. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda it [agenda item read]. Clerk further, commissioners, under your regular calendar, the project sponsor just advised me that they are requested items 13 a and b at 95 hawthorne street shadow findings and downtown authorization to be continued. They are requested july 25. That hearing date is closed on your calendar, but entirely up to you what date you continue this matter to. Is there any members of the public that wish to comment . Mr. Reuben . Yes, commissioners. Im jim reuben, reuben, junius, and rose. You received a letter the other day from john elberling. Hes here, and you can talk to him, as well. We ask for july 25 because we think 30 days is enough to get our issues resolved, on our way to get being our issues resolved getting our issues resolved, or cant. Reuben, junius
Peskin present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee . Present. Mr. President , you have to a quorum. President yee thank you. Ladies and gentlemen would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee all right. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, michael, maya and kaleno, who record the meetings and make the transcript available to those online. Madame clerk, any communications . There are none to report. President yee today we are approving the minutes from the may 21, 2019 board meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Okay. Motion made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor walton. These minutes will be approved after publ
And just say, i have a few slides from some of the cleanups that our newest staff member has been conducting. You can see that these plastic bags that are supposed to be reusable are also being considered litter. They are easily littered. We do need to get people to have an incentive for people to bring, to switch to the truly reusable bags. Thank you very much. Good afternoon chair peskin, supervisor brown and haney. My name is kathy brown and i work for the general manager there, we are a manufacturer of the supermarket packaging, the reusable bag as well as the precheckout bag. I am here in support of supervisor browns ordinance, much to probably my surprise and others. We manufacturer Sustainable Packaging items including compostable precheckout bags. We can work with your department of environment to ensure that the bags fit in the compost pile and to ensure there is an Education Program so that consumers know how to properly use and dispose of the compostable produce back. We hav