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the future again thank you to supervisor avalos and the many richmond district residents and people throughout the city who have supported this. >> president chiu: supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: as a public service announcement i want to bring attention that i am the board appointee to the san francisco retirement board. i will continue to carry your wishes on this board but i wanted to manage the expectations that this is a nonbinding resolution; a statement of this body asking and urging the retirement board, of which there are six other members to take this under considera...

and different groups around the country that are challenging different cities like in seattle. our city has been a leader in addressing climate change historically and it is making great gains in reducing greenhouse emissions for the work of many of us. yes the san francisco retirement system has over half 1 billion dollars invested in fossil fuel companies. we should not be investing our city's pension fund and oil, gas and coal companies many of which are planning to continue to burning massive amounts of carbon into the environment, but rather ensure the safety of the communities ...

and to make myself available to you and answer questions that you may have on how we can begin to move this particular policy . agenda forward as you know there are other discussions that we are doing with, , not only talking about divestment from fossil fuels but also talking about -- it escapes me -- thank you, gun control. manufacturing gun control. and the predatory lending institutions of san francisco that have been identified as predatory lenders. i want to make sure that we are on the same page on that. thank you. >> president chiu: thank you. supervisor tank. >> this would b...

ford is moving forward with the implementation of ab 832. government action is not enough. we have to recognize that we cannot burn all the oil and fuel and fossil reserves around. divestment is one tool that we have. the retirement board can invest responsiblywithout affecting the funds , security or yield. staff of the retirement board estimated out of the 15.6 billion the portfolio they have 583.7 million in the public holdings in the top 200 fossil fuel companies including 12 billion in exxon and 60 billion in chevron. the resolution calls for ceasing new fossil fuel investments ...

♪ >> i am mellisa griffin, a columnist and member of the san francisco league of women voters. i am here is city hall with the league and sfgtv to discuss prop h that will be on this year's november ballot. ♪ >> prop h would make it official city policy to encourage the san francisco unified school district to establish certain priorities for assigning students to specific schools. currently, parents may apply for their children to attend any school in the school district. if a school does not have space for all applicants, the school district and immense students based on c...