I do not want to contest what director brinkman said about the bad old days and how far we have come. Reading this conversation together with the one we had at the last meeting with vision 0, and about how poorly we are doing, i wonder whether we out to have more people in the room mad at us than we do now, and its a crazy thing to say in a way, but this is not a popularity contest, number one. Number two, and look, this is trouble ive encountered in my career. Just because the road goes by your house does not mean you own the road. And the people who use that road, or bike lane, or railroad, whatever it is, the people would us an it live all over the city because transportation is a network. And you shouldnt let somebody who resides at part of the network to tell you how the whole network works, just because they accidentally live near it. And people move all the time, too, and their attitudes move with them, and we are seeing a demographic change in the city, younger folks, and young
So rapidly what will happen now that growth is slowing down and the impact of the trade war with the United States but 1st lets take a look back at 70 years of economic development. But of the 949 when the communist peoples republic of china was founded the country was dirt poor poorer than many african nations 70 percent of its population are peasants and day laborers getting by on an income of just 57. 00 a year in a mostly agricultural economy communist party leader dongs reform in the 1950 s. Nationalized industry and distributed land from the wealthy to the countrys 4 but those policies led the country into chaos the communist revolves were the main cause of a widespread famine that killed millions of people and displaced many more millions more died in a wave of terror and communist reeducation camps after molls death and 976 chinas next leader Deng Xiaoping introduced some reforms that open the economy is policies brought china into the global marketplace and result has the curr
To adequately defend brandon or to bring him home. I appreciate the partnership and the assistance that we have received from speaker pelosis office and senators harris and finestein and i want to be clear that its insufficient and we are running out of time. We need to bring brandon home. We need to ensure that he receives adequate medical care, care that we here can give him. Weve added to the record to this file a letter from the San Francisco Health Commission supporting this request. And recognizing brandons mother, louise lee, has been a dedicated staff member at the department of Public Health for the last 40 years. Alongside supervisor haney we have been advocating on this issue for over a month. In that month, Community Members have come together to raise funds and to send a delegation to the philippines to visit brandon, including supervisor haney and to organize an incredible breadth of grassr509s advocacy, fueled by hope, anger and love. In that month we havent seen enough
Thank you for your analysis. Before we go to Public Comment, do you have any supervisor peskin . I just had a question. I may run for election in the year 2020, and i have actually taken out the appropriate papers to do so, and have a question as to whether or not i have any conflict in voting on this matter as it could potentially impact my campaign financing. You do not. You and probably many other members of the board and the mayor could benefit, or your campaign could benefit from this ordinance in the future or it could be hindered by this ordinance in the future depending on the content, but under the conflict of interest laws that apply to city officials, voting on an ordinance that may Impact Campaign laws like this does not create a conflict for you. Thank you. Thank you for clarifying that any other questions . We can move to Public Comment if there any members of the public wish to testify on this item you have two minutes. Good morning, embers of the committee. My name is [
Fewer. Welcome to the thursday, september 19th meeting of the government audits and oversight. Im joined by supervisor valerie brown. Supervisor peskin was unable to join us. Thank you to supervisor sandra fewer for joining us. And thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and i would also like to thank maya and hernenda at s. F. Gov. Agenda items acted upon today will appear on the october 1st, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairman thank you, mr. Clerk. Please call item one. Number one is the followup hearing on the 2017 to 2018 grand jury report entitled mitigating the dwelling and modular housing. Chairman as a recommendation from this report, we have not yet reached final status, i thought it valuable for us to finalize these outstanding responses before addressing the new report. There are two recommendations from the civil grand jury report on accessory dwelling units in modular that we can now give final status to. Recommendation two, they am