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[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on janu...

Annually at the timma board the board shall elect the newly postponed chair shall immediately precede his or her election according to the public speaker as soon as one of the nominees get a vote that person is elected and no other nomination mr. Clerk can you please call this item. Item 5 election of chair. Okay nominations are now in order for the office of the chair any nomination on the floor. Commissioner yee i nominate the current chair continue to be the chair. Thank you, commissioner. Su...

Well hear from barbara garcia. Good morning the district will have roving teams to make sure that the medical needs and the Mental Health needs of clients are taken care of were working with the outreach teams for the serviced to make sure they know that the sheltered will be available particularly our Homeless Outreach team that have mooeveng relationships with the people over the years will have the ability to get the people into is the she recalls we feel confident about that and our teams wi...

About the unique challenges that are presented by below grade homes . Yes, our biggest challenge is changing the mindset in our members of our we fight fires. Nine times out of ten when we go to a fire, our first rescuer on the scene wants to go to the front door to put a fire out. With below grade homes, say the level you come up on the road is really, instead of the ground floor, its the top floor. What happens if the fire is in the floors below, and we dont know that, we are going into a chim...

[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on janu...

Dee cellyman. Come on up. Good morning, supervisors, thank you. I want to my name is dee cellyman, i want to congratulate supervisor farrell and the committee on improving the draft. And i have one piece of text that i feel should be submitted. Changing page 12, line 3. I believe it should be changed as follows i will explain why, rec and parks guidelines for new open space and renovations shall be reviewed and adopted by the rec and Department Park commission. The reason i believe this, that th...

More veterans last year to suicide. Every 24 hours 22 veterans will commit suicide. Women are 3 times more likely to commit suicide if they have served in the armed service. I apologize, this hit me very personal last year. There are a lot of issues hitting our veterans, including moving back into our Veterans Building to make sure our veterans have access to that building. Right now we are thrown to the winds and veterans are meeting various places so we look forward to moving back into that bu...

Who would like to comment, please come forward and seeing no one come forward, we will close Public Comment and we have this before us. Supervisor cohen. Thank you, i just want to put forward Michael Seville, recommended for seat no. 2 and deanje brookdter for seat no. 3. I think they represent a deep commitment to the communities they will be representing, they have also demonstrated a proficient, even exceeding proficient role on this body. I agree with you, michael, i think it is exciting and...

Applying for this position. I have encouraged him to do that and i wasnt aware he had. Kevin is very hardworking and very talented employee at swords to plow shares and knows a lot about what veterans need in this city. As for what i think the Veterans Commission should be doing in the next few years, i think homelessness is no. 1. The va, as we know, has messed up and the city has very little opportunity to do much about that, but the city has a great deal of influence over homelessness. Thank ...

Joined the coast guard. I started out there washing dishes and ultimately served 10 years. I rose to the rank of chief petty officer before accepting a commission. I used the gi bill and used it to fund my studies at a Top Business School in spain. I can want to serve in the vic so i can uphold my promise to my brother and sister vetd trans to leave no one behind. Our city is often maligned as being antiveteran yet we are a inaudible stronger policies at the board of supervisors and the mayor re...