Committee vicechair katy tang and jane kim and norman yee and welcome supervisor avalos and thank you our clerk for the committee. I think well be rotating clerks, as well as Charles Kremenak and sfgovtv thank you for this meeting. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. We also have oc staff for translation. Okay. Thank you very much. We have translators. Yes. announcement being made . So thanks everyone. Welcome to Public Comment at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you call items 1 and 2. Item no. 1 is the proposed budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimates expenditures for departments of the city and county of San Francisco as of may 31, 2016, for the fiscal years ending june 30, 2017 and june 30th, 2018 and item no. 2 is a proposed the proposed annual salary ordinance, enumerating positions in annual budget and appropriation ordinance formalit
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So there were huge counties settled up in the frontier. They had two seats and then there are two in new york city and then two in smaller places. Its not one man, one vote. And certain rich lan lords had their own seats in the assembly. They didnt have to stand for election. They held these seats. The higher house, the council appointed to life terms. The royal governor appointed and serves at the will of the imperial bureaucracy. Yanked out of there if he doesnt do what hes told. You can say theres popular government in colonial america but the reality is that electoral turnout in new york or virginia, if it got to 40 of the eligible voters, that was considered unusual. Most people didnt bother to vote because they didnt think it was that important. Its just one of the political institutions, the sheriffs are appointed, county clerks are appointed. Judges are all appointed by a system that has very little say for popular participation. Now there are some examples that work against th
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Young and sfgovtv members for covering this meeting just lost the names please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. Items acted upon today will appear on the september 20th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Call item one. Wages for the loading and unloading of materials products for special events on City Properties for city vehicles so for to you purpose. We have supervisor Wiener Officer who is the sponsor. Good afternoon supervisor farrell and im from supervisor wieners office before you is legislation that will help to insure the folks behind the scenes making the events the success those are folks that upload tables and equipment and the likes and we want to make sure their do paid a fair living wage while doing that work the board of supervisors has been consistent with the support for prevailing legislation insuring the work done on city permits it held to a higher standard with a fair living wage that supports families with a quality