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Impact of fossil fuel usage. Second, the committee is encourages by the sixpoint recommendation for taking action on this topic, but would like to request more information regarding specific timelines for each of the action items lefted in the staff plan. The committee would like to communicate their grave concern regarding the possibility of a mass divestment of fossil fuels within a short time frame. The committee would advocate that the board undertake no such rash action until completing a c...

That we double up in this category then . You are a consultant. You are giving us advice for now and in the future. So if you believe its going to go up, why was that not in the recommendation that came before the board . Everybody in this room needs to understand that you hold securities in two places. You give them to managers and those managers make the decision on if the security is attractively valued or not. As a consultant, why dont you recommend us investing more money in the field if yo...

Melanie louis . I have worked for the city and Health Department the last 30 years, last 18 years in the emergency department. I want to ask all of you to do the right thing. We, who benefit from our pension, dont want our pension money invested in evil. Fossil fuel is evil. Its hurting its hurting what will be left of our planet for our grandchildren and i encourage all of you to vote to divest all of our money from fossil fuels. C. Landry and Carol Brownson after that. I decline to speak. Ruth...

Would have on pension performance and costs. We appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand the implications of such a decision before its made. Sorry. Time. Thank you very much. Again, everyone has 1 minute. Were going to announce loudly when you are at your 1minute mark. Understand the constraints we have. Sara greenwald, are you present . Seeing shes not here. I will set her speaker card aside. Phil casky, followed by margar...

Getting really hard for artists to live here. So what do we want our city to look like . What do we want our city to be . On 24th street, that is what were trying to do. Were trying to take a moment and figure out what we want our neighborhood to look like . How we want to move forward . And how can we be a mixed neighborhood . We dont have to be a poor neighborhood. We dont have to be a completely rich neighborhood. But we can be an integrated neighborhood, with all kinds of people, with all ki...

Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is carlos. I am the ceo for the Hispanic Chamber of commerce of San Francisco. We represent over 300 Small Business members, 80 of them over the last ten years were located in the mission area. Now 75 of them are not there anymore, including myself. I used to have an office there. I cannot afford it anymore and changes with the housing program, were still having those problems. We need to support Small Businesss and we need to support moll and pop businesses....

Grocery store. We have frenchinspired food and sushi. New businesses have taken over long vacant storefronts or neglected storefronts. There is a lot of concern about highpriced restaurants and our city is known for culinary establishments. They are motivated to keep their businesses vital and viable. I am not for the proposed legislation. I dont think it solves the problem. Thank you, next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ana lisa, and i part of the calle 24th council and i represent the yout...

Francisco. We represent over 300 Small Business members, 80 of them over the last ten years were located in the mission area. Now 75 of them are not there anymore, including myself. I used to have an office there. I cannot afford it anymore and changes with the housing program, were still having those problems. We need to support Small Businesss and we need to support moll and pop businesses. We have been working with the city to make more lbes. Local business enterprises. Were having this the r...

Playing hockey. He is not able to join us. Mike will cover some of the points he was going to make. Why theres a call to action to increase value in our Health Care System. Ill start first by introducing each panelist and sit down, and then go on. So ill start with mike, who is one of the nations most highly regarded economists. Really what distinguishes mike, not only is he broil yant on the theory and research. Probably more than any other economist, he understands how markets work. And he lea...

Subcommittee on Information Technology will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Good afternoon. Todays hearing is part of a series of hearings the i. T. Subcommittee has held to analyze existing laws and regulations that may have become obsolete updating technological advances. Weve held hearings on health i. T. , drones, autonomous vehicles, internet of things and many other issues. Today we turn attention to laws and regulations governoring...