This meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it right, im more surprised than anything. Im laurie green awe girardin. Im in district 9. Thanks for this opportunity to be considered for the league of women voters seat on the Ballot Simplification Committee. Im a selfemployed Communications Consultant and writer. I help nonprofits, foundation and others share their stories and engage their communities. I have 20 years of experience in communications. In my work, i use plain language to m
Is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman what is wrong with me, gordon mar. Excuse me, gordon. Our clerk is victor young. Id like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it right, im more surprised than anything. Im laurie green awe girardin. Im in district 9. Thanks for this opportunity to be considered for the league of women voters seat on the Ballot Simplification Committee. Im a selfemployed Communications Consul
[gavel] good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 4th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. We will be joined shortly by supervisor shamann walton, who is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman what is wrong with me, gordon mar. Excuse me, gordon. Our clerk is victor young. Id like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it righ
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