Supervisor yee good afternoon. Welcome to the october 8th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you mr. President. [ roll call ] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee so, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, tom and madias who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, were in receipt of two communication the dade the october 27th, 2019 from supervisors haney and walton stating they will be absent today in request to be excused from the meeting. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse haney and walton from at
Supervisor yee good afternoon. Welcome to the october 8th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you mr. President. [ roll call ] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee so, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, tom and madias who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, were in receipt of two communication the dade the october 27th, 2019 from supervisors haney and walton stating they will be absent today in request to be excused from the meeting. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse haney and walton from at
Committing is going to call about. I have been chair since july. We are yet to have a meeting. You have to stop doing certain things and focus on the most important things. This is a discussion item. There is no item other than to say we will figure out how to use this document. Is there Public Comment . That concludes item 16. There is an old adage. Never fall in love with an investment. You have fallen in love with the investment and that is hedge funds. You have got to bite the bullet and divest from them. You are going to find in a few years there will be big losses. If any of you Board Members are politicians or want to be politicians what you are going to see on the front page of the chronicle, the San Francisco pension fund lost hundreds of millions of dollars in high risk investments like hedge funds. Once again, i think you should start divesting from them. Item 16. Next item. Declaration of vacancy on retirement board occurring february 20, 2020 and approval of election proce
Supervisor yee good afternoon. Welcome to the october 8th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you mr. President. [ roll call ] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee so, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, tom and madias who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, were in receipt of two communication the dade the october 27th, 2019 from supervisors haney and walton stating they will be absent today in request to be excused from the meeting. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse haney and walton from at
Cannabis oversight committee. Thank you, president yee. I create the the legislation of a Cannabis Oversight Committee to advise the board on regulations, growth of the industry and to help the board meet its goals of equity within the industry. I believe the creation of a public advisory body made up with these Key Stakeholders to oversee the office of cannabis and the implementation of laws governing commercial cannabis activities is the best way to provide transparency and accountability for this brand new growing industries. This Advisory Board will provide valuable in sight and recommendations to the board of supervisors as we implement the voter mandate the recreational cannabis. I want to thank all of the applicants who applied for their interest in serving on this committee as it is an allvolunteer committee. I was excited about how impressive the applicants were and i want to thank supervisors, ronen, walton for weighing the applications and prioritizing diversity and represen