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Supervisor avalos supervisor breed no there are 5 is and of nos this amendment has failed correction. Just making sure youre all paying attention laughter the next one is supervisor campos prsht are shortterm rentals that rental that are significant to ellis act evictions. Supervisor campos supervisor chiu no supervisor cohen. Just so im clear. This is the amendment to prohibit shortterm rentals that were subject to ellis act within years. Supervisor cohen i supervisor farrell marry no superviso...

Thats really about democracy. Its about Good Government and how can anyone really be against democratic elections. So, colleagues, i hope we can all come on board with this as it move to rules committee and gets placed on the ballot. And we can give san franciscans the type of democracy that he he we all believe is worthy of this great city of ours. The rest ill submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to speak about two item. The first o...

Host families. The Obama Administration and the department of health and Human Services are soliciting the assistance of cities throughout this country and major cities like San Francisco. They are asking for our help to leverage city resources to help address this escalating International Humanitarian crisis. If this were happening anywhere else in the world, this board likely would be submitting a resolution calling on our country to take action to address this International Crisis in another ...

Alameda county were sued by the pharmaceutical industry for similar ordinance, San Francisco decided to put our efforts on hold. In the meantime, San Franciscos department of the environment launched our citys voluntary drug take back program. And i worked with the department of the environment and the pharmaceutical industry to secure funding for the Pilot Program. But unfortunately over the last 21 2 years, over 40 of our small Pilot Program has been funded by the industry. This program has be...

A word of teds passing became public as one of teds passing became public ~ friends shared grief, memories and inspiration. And there has been a common theme in all of their reflections. Ted was a fearless and powerful activist who never hesitated to draw a line in the sand and stick to his principles. He was someone who both led militant and direct action in the streets and also actively participated in crafting and moving legislation at city hall and at the ballot box. He was also very good at...

Catalog of the Capital Needs of the city, a good plan in terms of how to finance it, when to send bonds out. It is a big improvement over the way we used to do it, which was a little less methodical. So im a huge support of the capital plan and Capital Planning committee and its step. With that said, there are going to be times we have disagreements and ultimately we at the board of supervisors or the mayor, elected policy makers for this city, so, it is natural and appropriate for us to have th...

Honoree. Id like to thank the patience of our honoree today. Our office was brainstorming. We thought its really good as i mentioned before to put a face behind the legislation. And when i mentioned individuals that were going to benefit from the passage of fair chance act, i thought it was good to honor folks that already before this legislation passed [speaker not understood], already put in place and Employment Practices here in our city. In particular in district 6. I wanted to bring up two ...

Supporting the advancement of human rights not only in central america, but in other parts of the world. And when it comes to central america, we have a long history of involvement here in San Francisco where we saw the birth of the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s when San Francisco provided a safe haven for Central American refugees fleeing civil war. Since the passage of the sanctuary ordinance in 1989, San Francisco has held the distinction of being a sanctuary city and i think that consisten...

And [speaker not understood]. ~ from target. I wanted to showcase two examples of businesses that are doing this, small and large, Small Business, the winery s. F. On Treasure Island is one of our local San Francisco wineries. If youre a wine lover, you dont need to go far to get some of the best tasting and delicious wines. You can just come to Treasure Island. The winery is 20,000 square foot wine making facility allows [speaker not understood] experience wine making and wine tasting that is l...

Again, i just want to stress how important it is for us here at city hall to support the puc in addressing its structural funding challenges. Has a lot of Capital Needs, including street Light Capital needs and other Capital Needs in the power enterprise. And getting the puc power enterprise more customers, which we have the power to do at this board, will help in that effort, will help generate revenue to support Capital Needs for street lights and elsewhere. So, there are a lot of projects tha...