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this task force is the right place where we could have new blood, new insight, a new generation of community activists that really want to contribute to our city. me, myself, personally, i can understand and feel a lot of their inspiration and vision and their roles on this task force coming from immigrant families. families that are not politically engaged because the countries that our families come from, you get disappeared. we get killed. to us being the new generation, me on the older cusp of the new generation, the being engaged, being out there. cutting their teeth on communit...

conflicts related to receiving money from the city -- on the margin, i think i have a problem with that. as a lobbyist, i do not know if we should be pursuing right now candidates with those potential conflicts given the breadth of people we have here. i think they are all great and that would have no problem with them otherwise. i just wanted to mention that in our dialogue. the people i thought made great presentations and i really liked their backgrounds, mr. e lmendorf, ms. leblanc. anna yee, i can testify to her genuine care of the city. mr. baraka, mr. mcdonnell. we have this d...

madam chair. this is the fourth time we are in committee for this, so i will not repeat what i have said in the past. this is a very modest first step in beginning to reform our ballot measure process. i want to thank members of the committee and members of the public for the very valuable feedback that we have received, and the amended version submitted last week limits this prospectively. it does not impact any ballot measures passed before 2012. it is a purely perspective reform, and it is limited to ballot measures place on the ballot by the mayor or by the board of ...