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[speaker not understood] from the Youth Leadership institute. Linda boyer chiu from the we willness center susfd. [speaker not understood]. John kreuger. Keith perry. And [speaker not understood]. Mr. Gored an . Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is bob gordon and im proud to have lived in San Francisco 21 years, my smokefree city ~. For many years i helped facilitate a free stop Smoking Program for the Lgbt Community here. My brothers and sisters, mostly in their 40s, 50s and 60s, this progra...

Products and [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Chair yee, can i just ask the doctors about a number of emails weve been receiving from different people saying that ecigarettes have helped them stop their smoking and were harming a good thing and pushing people towards smoking. But im just wondering if you could address and i think a lot of them are coming from a Nonprofit Group that is a National Group urging them to send us emails and letters. Well, while, you know, the individual reports ar...

Colleagues, can we have a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation . Yes, so moved. Okay. With no objection, motion passes. [gavel] madam clerk, can you please call item number 2 . Item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. There are two vacant seats and two applicants. Okay. I will now call the applicants in the order listed on the agenda. Is sam [speaker not understood] here . Come on up. Good afterno...

Thank you so much, dr. Green. Next speaker. And if there is any youth that are in the audience, please come forward to speak in the beginning. Hello, cooper logan with the Student Advisory Council. Thats Student Advisory Council from the San Francisco Unified School District . Correct. Yeah. Many High School Students don see ecigarettes as a risk to their health [speaker not understood]. Close friends have told me they see ecigarettes more like candy or a harmless casual thing to do. From person...

According to the Surgeon Generals report ~. I just want to read a couple lines from a recent article on the effects of nicotine addiction by dr. Neil ben witnesses who is part of ucsf. Nicotine causes withdrawal, anxiety and stress both of which are powerful incentives to take up smoking again. Cessation of smoking causes he the emergence of withdrawal symptoms, irritability, depressed mood, restlessness and anxiety. The intensity of these moods, mood disturbances is similar to that found in psy...

Environment where people are really made to feel its atkins a sanctuary. And were completely confident this space is going to be exactly that and people who were not able to rest are now able to do so. Hoping youre going to support it and confident youre going to support it, its really historic. Thank you thank you. Hello the executive director of the aids foundation. I want to take a moments the memory even if erick. When tommy and i came up with the idea for the homeless lgbt shelter we had a ...

But as were looking at the objective of giving every student the opportunity to go to college by allowing them to meet these requirements. The focus isnt necessarily on what the School District is doing, but i would like to say more and have more of a discussion about what else the city can do to help the School District reach that objective . And i know that there is additional supportal funding that supervisor kim has introduced. And a number of us are supportive of that. But i would like to h...

It is a. T. F. Under fire for sting operations that are partly manipulated mentally disabled people and applied minors with challenge and drugs. Consider this, did the activity encourage all sorts of crimes, the a. T. F. Is supposed to be fighting . Many employers snoop on that their workers email and internet use, but a new together following this raises new questions about how far is too far when it comes to bosses tracking workers. A mainstream paper gets a marijuana reporter. The man who jus...

And 35 adult beds. Im on the committee and help to inspect our homeless shelter by anything that i say today doesnt reflect my companies opinion. We have 25 percent identified as lgbt and this is a significant under count since thats a sensitive issue to reveal. Our general population and our transgender residents are sprinkled insprinkled variesly within our shelter. Arising from the circumstances of an apparent node for the Homeless Population to access the she felt. And nonthreatening based o...

If you have Public Comments to make make sure to fill out one of our comment cards on the desk. If there not there crystal is getting them and thank you to sfgovtv and 3 to 4 services for broadcasting this live to air to the public. Well start this meeting with roll call. All right. Councilmember curls. Commissioner lee. Commissioner joseph. Commissioner hyde. Commissioner akers. Want at an. We have a quorum and im still unclear as to the statutes of commissioner perez as to whether hes been swo...