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Divided in the usual form. The senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy mr. President i ask that the record reflect this colloquy and this dialogue be shown in the same place in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy i think that i might not be alone to my good friend from wyoming in suggest you ing that most people probably wouldnt suggest that 11 Million People signing up for Health Care Means the law is unpopular. Indeed weve seen a reduction by 25 in those across the cou...

Will vote on sometime next week. I also predict, mr. President , that this is the last farm bill that wont be driven by the new realities of people who want their food needs met in new ways. Those food needs are going to be greater, but were going to be less concerned, i would expect, five years from now about farm surpluses and what happens if we grow too much than we are about how we meet the growing food needs of the world, partly because of the population, partly because people once they get...

His commendation. Thank you president chiu. Today i am honoring a special person, michelle rutherford, a friend and advocate of the children of Family Services of San Francisco. Would you like to come up . I met michelle in 1997 when she was asked by our Human Services agency to lead the child Care Planning department. This was created as a offshoot of the welfare reform act, also known as tanf and it was amazing to have phetd met her at that time. As the program manager, michelle had an impress...

Mandatory composting recycling policy to move our city to a city of zero waste. She helped advance us to be the electric vehicle capital. Shes someone who helped to encourage expansion of our citys outreach efforts to our immigrant populations when it comes to environmental public information. She helped to implement the existing commercial building ordinance with an 82 percent compliance rate. She initiated our citys first Drug Take Back Program which has collected over 16,000 pounds of unwante...

People in Public Service and he founded his program, which is now nationally recognized, which has provided over 250 students since 1990 is valuable opportunities to experience hands on work all over muni. Bond yee has helped to bring transportation engineering to the forefront of urban planning and engineering. Because of that on behalf of the board of supervisors, it is my honor to declare today, january 31, 2014 as bond yee day in San Francisco. Thank you bond. Bond, before you speak, we do h...

Committee resolution in support of proposed San Francisco mta commuter shuttle policy and power program. There was a discussion and possible action. Youre looking at me. Youre the ranking member. Commissioner josefowitz. Were taking it out of order. Im sorry, operations. Did you do operations . Operations Committee Chairs report. Okay. Commissioner king is gone. Im going to give her report on the last meeting. We had a good meeting. You guys should come well, you guys cant come, but public shoul...

I am speechless. You know, Public Service is a privilege and its especially so if you get to do it in your hometown so i feel fortunate in that regard. Im honored to be able to serve you and the people of San Francisco and really appreciate all the support and policy guidance youve given me and my colleagues at the sfmta through all these years and thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you on muni. [applause] i have a second commendation for another Public...

Around the budget and specifically around some of the Unfunded Mandates that are here with the department. One of the things that came up that i also wanted to ask acting director osman about was we talked about potentially requesting general fund money to support the hacto work that we were doing and i didnt know if that was any progress had been made on that or that was something we were going to do in the future. I had a conversation with our budget analyst this afternoon about that. Its look...

And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you kno...

Announcement is we hope to finalize our agenda for the joint puc Environment Commission on friday. Meeting should go about up to two hours. The agenda is a joint agenda, so, you go back and forth . How does that work . So, weve been this meeting will help inform thoughts and ive had i think i had heard from maybe commissioner wald had given me some ideas. So, ideas from her and ideas here today i think give a clear sense of what to propose and ive already proposed to the Commission President som...