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Supervisor wiener and i are going to do a yoga class. Its not much to ask, but it would mean so much to the people in our community ~. Now i have to Say Something on a personal level. It has not been easy for me coming back from war and my role in dont ask dont tell repeal activism. Only a year ago i almost bought ammunition, 45 caliber to put in my west point pistol to blow off my head. But i rise today to thank everybody here. You made San Francisco my home. Thank you, supervisor jane kim. Tha...

So, i know the feeling and i know the heart break thats taking place. Thats why i started the organization brothers against guns. So, i wanted to be clear on when we speak, we have to make sure that we include the community in the process of what makes these resolutions work and who puts them together. So, i just want to let you guys know a point of clarity that im the author of that resolution that will be read to you in a few minutes and we are a team of a coalition against violence put this t...

Preliminary scoping just to see how far down the budget we would be able to get . So in march we would like to come back with the plan okay with the 15. 5 Million Dollars this is the number of playgrounds we think we could do in the first effort and the schedule for those. I think the other main piece of the feedback from the Task Force Committee which was mostly at the last meeting that we rebrand this program and while failing playgrounds sells gets you votes for bonds its not necessarily the ...

Some of that is going for feed the people who dont have other access to food in the city and it is heartening and fantastic presentation and then finally, we discussed the Community Meeting that we had and we learned as to whether or not the staff could accommodate that level of work, whether it was too much work to put the Community Meetings together and talked about what worked but didnt, and donny said that they had learned a lot from the first two that we had down about nine months apparent ...

Reimbursements and incentives and i just want to note that commissioner wan and i were in a very wonderful meeting and i, myself had a pretty impactful tour yesterday, where i saw the sros of china town and some of of them, and i had never been inside of an sro i didnt understand that you can put your arms out and touch each side of the room, and that is where not only one person may live, but an entire family may live, so that was very impactful to me and we got a grant, the department of the e...

Residents, to take advantage of their property tax assessment, as a way to pay for energy and in an earthquake, and water upgrades. We have this in the commercial sector but we have not been able to implement it on the residential sector and we have worked on it now for several years and we have reached a very important point in time where the mayor is introduced a resolution, that would authorize the city to join with some existing providers, and we once we work through those, milestones, or th...

Front of us, we could do a simple one. One of the things that i think commissioner arce suggested and what was read into the minutes was that we something about potentially giving approval to write a letter in support and i am very comfortable saying that we subpoena power support the intent of this and maybe we can include the language in the letter and i would be very up for that. So, we could, ask staff including that and many of the suggestions that were made this evening, and do i have a mo...

Transit, and we, at the 350 San Francisco are very much putting that on our agenda, as something that we want to push for support for Public Transit and also, we do have people coming through and i think that we do have a lot of fruit traffic of the people on vacation and this is something that they are not going to see this every day in their town but it will be something that they would take home with them from their travels and it is result in San Francisco, right . And among a lot of other D...

Mayor. Commissioner wald . I was so, i know that i am going to get another chance to say this, but i just have to say what a loss your leaving retiring, will be ruth, even if we get a grateful commission shortly after. You are the best environmentalist on this commission. Your knowledge of the San Francisco environment and the issues that are effect it as well as the broad sweep of relationships that you have built with the activists and the individuals and the environmental organizations and th...

Theyre getting enough revenue from the system that its not really costing a lot to taxpayers or ratepayers. This is a program thats cheaper than what we already pay for over a gig wat of connection speed so please read that before jason gives the final report so were ready to go on the next step of getting Community Public brand ban to the broad ban to the entirety of San Francisco. This is the same as eisenhowers highway system. Its the public internet system, instead of private internet system...