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There is Al Jazeera America live from new york city im tony harris. European officials just wrapped up an emergency meeting over the migrant crisis in the mediterranean hours after another shipwreck this one along the coast of greece. I would say that today we have a new european level of awareness that this is a european issue. Not of Single Member states. And that we need to act. To act fast. And to act united. This is not just a call from some but a response from all. Rescuers today plucked p...

For this legislation, and i just wanted to comment i know that the San Francisco chamber has made a request that we hold off on implementing the legislation until it goes through the court process, and unfortunately i will not able to honor that request. Clearly when this legislation in alameda was brought before the lower federal court and the 9th sir kit of appeals. We wont grant that request today, but i would like to offer two minor clerical amendments before we hopefully pass this legislati...

Then to cowspiracy. A vegan diet produces half as much co2 1 11 the amount of fossil fuels 1 13 of water. I realized i had the choice every single day to save over 1100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 square feet of force did land, the equivalent of 20 pounds of co2, and one animals life. Amy as california experiences a massive drought, we will speak to two documentary filmmakers about the link between Climate Change and Meat Consumption. Then we look at how the tsas Behavior Detection ...

Think that we should have a robust campaign. I just want to make sure we invest those dollars and has the outcome we want to see. I think focus groups if that is a possibility is important because i know that as our neighborhoods are laurching the banners in the next few months which we are eexcited about show casing the seniors and youth in the neighborhood to remind driver that real people live here and it isnt just their free way to get to work and shopping and back home. I want to make sure ...

Many massage parlors are legitimate unfortunately, many are not we estimate 40 are illegal and those are houses for Human Trafficking human traufk is one of the faster crimes going in the world and 40 percent state of california occurs in the bay area because of the proposals from the state legislation theres no public process or Community Input into those businesses opposing e opening into the neighborhood so this slide kind of shows the landscape of the massage landscape we have 20th century 1...

Lot of proliferation of establishments in San Francisco it is fine but those lack oversight for the cleanliness and were established with illegal activity we hope this prevents illegal places if opening and close those in existence and provides services in need and robust permitting and listening program for all massage establishment to flourish in San Francisco as i alludes two parts to the legislation two amendments one to the health code 3 things in the health code we want to codify simulatin...

In the project. You can probably tell i am enormously frustrated as are many of my constituents. It undermines confidence of the public when things like this happen and the entire process. When we talk about having important projects that save lives and wanted to get thevl them delivered effectively and being in communication with the public and delivering in the most Cost Effective way, this project really undermines my confidence and i just really as we are talking about this it isnt theoretic...

Really frustrating project for you and staff and we have talked a few times about it and itthere isnt much i can say now that can change what happened in the past. My best response is at the land use and Transportation Committee we talked about all the things we are doing to approve project delivery and all those effortss are focused ovision zero project. Stream line acontability and using [inaudible] the way we communicate with the public. These are things that you will see us doing much better...

Corridor and transit project through the len of safety and safety for bikes and peds that go together with all of the modes for the improvements oon the street. We are also doing china down neighborhood transportation planning. This is under the planning side. I vd have gave my qualification. This focuses on spot recommend for Safety Improvement on kearny and broadway including traffic [inaudible] strategies and other pedestrian improvement. Then we have inneighborhood transportation improvement...

Talked a few times about it and itthere isnt much i can say now that can change what happened in the past. My best response is at the land use and Transportation Committee we talked about all the things we are doing to approve project delivery and all those effortss are focused ovision zero project. Stream line acontability and using [inaudible] the way we communicate with the public. These are things that you will see us doing much better in these areas. Hathat is no consilation for not just th...