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The use of genetically modified organisms on farms and in food products. In august a federal Aviation Administration missed a deadline for writing rules for drones to prevent interference with regular air traffic. This week an faa official testified at a house hearing that the missed deadline means e comprehensive rules wont be made until 2017 at the earliest. This hearing of the subcommittee on aviation is two hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. Would like to ask unanimous co...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered today by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. It is your nature to hold us in your living presence always. It is our nature to think of you and of others only momentarily or in passing. Be with each of us that we may be our very best and prove ourselves worthy of your love and your grace. Bless the members of this peoples house in their work and delibe...

Again i am not advocating for some pure equity among the districts. But taking into account there will be disproportionate amount for 6 and 3, and there should be, but there has to be a rule of reason as well. And we have very significant needs in parts of district 8 as well, in terms of period safety. Upper market, before my time, the incorrect decision was made to excise west of octavioiia boulevard and that decision was made and with horrible circumstances. And with bulb outs, 200,000 is not ...

Not doing what i expected with vision zero, that is to address those areas most problematic. Having a list that lists them out is great. But i guess prioritizing them in a way that explains how it relates to the data of those particular areas. And the accidents that occur in those particular areas. And i guess i can give an example, so i make sure i am being clear. In my district we have webster street from fulton to sutter. And i want to understand the data for that, as well as understand why t...

Committee that you want to hold us accountable on this list, whether planned before or in the future, and we will go month by month and we may need your help to get resources or staffing. I dont want consideration, i would like a response today, and also district 4. I mean there are some terrible intersections there, and terrible streets, 19th avenue. And some overlap into district 7 and district 4 is also almost absent from this list. We will get back. We will get back to that and come back wit...

And it doesnt take away from the projects that we intend to fund in the upper market area. And working with the cac and we have a number of projects in the planning stage that we are woking with the planning department. And the development in that area, we are setting aside mi millions of dollars for that area. The question, commissioner wiener, when you look at a vision zero project or data or effectiveness that mari is talking about. Whether or not as a policy matter this committee wants to ma...

List that we hold ourselves accountable for a 24month delivery. We see more diamond and bosworth and it continues even though the money is sitting there. Thats my concern, i know that the mta and the other agencies have the best intentions. And not disagreement of what needs to happen but to get the momentum to make them a reality. Good feedback, and we will take that into consideration. And frame that and take into consideration, if you want updates on those projects, we will get you updates on...

Introduce new business, supervisor avalos. Thank you madam clerk. A couple of items for introduction today. One is a request for the City Attorney to draft legislation that would set us in motion to create a Municipal Development corporation. As you all know i have been working for a number of years on the creation of a public bank, a Municipal Bank for the city and county of San Francisco. The public bank could eventually take over the citys banking functions that are currently performed by ban...

Have a number of projects in the planning stage that we are woking with the planning department. And the development in that area, we are setting aside mi millions of dollars for that area. The question, commissioner wiener, when you look at a vision zero project or data or effectiveness that mari is talking about. Whether or not as a policy matter this committee wants to make that a definition. Then we are happy to add the project. Some of those things are funded. Its just moving one thing from...

Three days and i want to acknowledge mr. Mcknight for the service to the community, his humanitarian spirit and the Rapid Response in the face of a challenging situation. Hes one of the dedicated staff that came together to make sure that the residents were warm, safe and secure during the night. He is a graduate of si here in San Francisco. Supervisor farrell nods in with support as well as uc berkeley and serves in the navy. He worked in the biotech industry before moving to San Francisco to d...