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Corner stores that sell cigarettes and alcohol to neighborhoods that have much more businesses that sell healthy affordable and Fresh Produce. I also wanted to say that many of the food justice and access leaders that i have had the honor of working with helped me understand that food access and the struggle for healthy food in neighborhoods is a civil rights issue for many of the lowest income neighborhoods and on a city wide level as well, so this legislation sets up a Pilot Program that is ci...

Important cause and also those who do not attend the rallies but also have their way of enter taining the status quo. This is an important piece of legislation that we are passing. This is a great day for all of us and for all the warriors that are out there that continue to lift the immigrant voice and give voice inform a cause that sometimes has gone unacknowledged and unvalidated. Today is an in incredibly victorious day. We are going to claim victory on this. We are going to work to get this...

Budget and timeline so we can properly set the public expectations like the library and hospital projects and the rec and park projects. Thank you. And just a i guess we are tag teaming today and follow up on the issue of project delivery. I mean i will be the first to advocate that as important as our political process is that at times we allow the political process to go on with no end in sight and repeat itself and decisions never become public and shown with the major drama around a modest p...

Get a license but a large store can and a lounge has trouble becoming ada compliant and if they do so theyre going to lose the license and a store may close down and not reopen again because the special use district would cause the Liquor License to be forfeited so over time the district was starting to stifle positive change and innovation in the neighborhood and it was time to take action, and i really want to thank supervisor campos because for me i have always been i have clear and public vi...

Get this passed. I want to say hello, thank you, waned need you and applaud you and thank you for being at the table. [ applause ] we have two other colleagues who would like to say a few words. Mr. Campos. Thank you mr. President. I will be brief. I think that what this Defense Committee has been about goes to the heart of who we are as a country. We are a country of immigrant and by fighting to protect the rights of immigrants who often are a group that is marginalized and you are doing so at ...

Community engagement is effective but there is factors outside of what we can manage as an industry that impact the timelines but its something were focused on and want to make sure whatever resources we have whether from the federal government, the State Government or regionally or locally we put them into the ground and benefit the Transportation System directly. I appreciate your focus on this. We had so many transit related projects from Market Street to the subway and various other projects...

Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while this isnt just my view that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. Over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the Bowling Alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project was going to fall apart because they werent going to be a...

Fresh Drinking Water is available really everywhere, not just institutions. Looking at healthy defaults so that the beverage that is the first beverage of choice is Something Like low or nonfat milk or water. Working with child care centers, continuing to work on organizational wellness policies, looking at systemic, there is a great policy around bottled water and not using our funds to buy bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes...

The audit report from 2012 so far . No, i think weve peppered your presentation with our questions. Supervisor campos has one more. What about the Homeland Security Grant Program . Im sorry, i may have skipped that one. Oh, yes, im sorry. So, there is the very last finding is internal cultural reporting. This is the process of submitting reports to the grantor. This is not a noncompliance finding, meaning we did not find any er rs in the reports themselves. It was part of the process. [speaker n...

Your language capabilities so that youre able to navigate these Employment Training programs and all the other engaging programs that we have. San francisco is the Innovation Capital of the world and in that way all of the different ethnicities that arrive in San Francisco of all different backgrounds need to be part of this innovation, because innovation is not about just one particular group of people. Its about everybody participating. And you should hear some of the tech kids that are in the...