Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting tuesday, april 12, 2016 mdm. Clerk can you please call the roll. [roll call vote] please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] olleagues, can we take this without objection. Without objection the Meeting Minutes are passed after Public Comment. Lets go to our Consent Agenda. Items 1 through 5 would comprise our Consent Agenda and consider it routineseeing no names on the roster mme. Clerk please read the role on items 1 through 5. [roll call vote]have passed unanimously. Item 6 is an ordinance as part of a provement of a Chinese Hospital pursuant to the Sale Agreement need to copy these in favor of thirdparty utilities and private party owners and seqa determinations and adopting and adoptingother findings. Without objection this has passed unanimously. Item 7. Same house and call without ordinance this has been passed unanimously. Roll call vote on item 8. [roll call vote] 9 ay
Could moscow be softening its position about president Bashar Alassads role in the political future and we hear from the rugby world champions as they make a triumphant return home, the trophy back on new zealand territory after the all blacks successful title defense. Okay. We start with some breaking news out of romania, where the Prime Minister victor ponta and his government resigned following protests following a nightclub fire. 30 people died in the capital bucharest. 20,000 called for cabinet resignations on tuesday, and are accusing the government of corruption when granting permits and conducting safety inspections. Lets speak to the local journalists, joining us on the line from bucharest. We know ponta had been under pressure to resign. Was it the protests that did it. He had been under pressure to quit. He went on trial in september facing trials of fraud, Money Laundering et cetera. There were young professional students, artists, friends and relatives of those killed and
Foundation chicago is. Working with jurisdiction to my counties, millions of dollars going in to help them really look at what the practices are people sitting in a room, its incredible. It is happening. Is the think its where we need to be. Live this morning inside the Montgomery County correctional facility inside one of the Housing Units there. Mr. Green is the director for the county department of corrections and rehabilitation. Go ahead. You are on the air. My name is thomas and ii had experience from both ends of the spectrum. Im in a licensed therapist and a lot of the programs give a lot of credit. Really interested in change. But there is enough responsibility amim sorry, enough plane, responsibility, and complicity to go around. The reasons forward when the inmates, their behavior, from an, from an ethnicity standpoint blacks blame whites, whites and blacks. But there is enough responsibility for both. When it comes to the judicial system there is a factor we fail to look at.
Budget. Great nations do great things. And fortune favors the bold. The next several years will determine whether american astronauts will be the first to plant a flag on mars. We want them to have arrived there on board an orion crew vehicle propelled by the space launch. I want to comment on the handout that weve all seen by the administration called nasas journey to mars by regrettably, however, this proposal contains no budget. It contains no schedule, no deadlines. Its just some real pretty photographs and some nice words. That is not going to do it. That is not going to get us to mars. This sounds good, but its actually a journey to nowhere until we have that budget and we have the schedule and we have the deadlines. And i hope the administration will change its posture and decide in the future that it is actually going to support sls and orion and keep them on schedule, because their proposals to cut sls and orion every single year is not helping us achieve the great goals that
Oh denial, unemployment, free trade, congressional dysfunction, all of these things seem to overlap. The New York Times cover this recently in july bipartisan pushed to builds to relax laws. Host do you have a thought on giving judges more discussion . Retion . Guest i do see this really strong bipartisan support in this area, this region, that we reside in, we have interest from democrats, republicans, people who want to see a change in how the system works, and the successes we are having. I see really strong support for outcomes, and not necessarily affiliations. I think that discussion provided to the judges is really an important piece of this change. , an joe in South Carolina independent with experience in the Corrections System. What is your question or comment . Caller first of all, i want to tell you how i appreciate your show, and you. Can you hear me . Host we can. Were listening. Thank you for that. Caller i was in a correctional facility back in 1980, right around there.