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Good afternoon. Welcome to the june 18t june 18th meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Thank you, mr. President. roll call . You have a quorum. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. pledge of allegiance. . pledge of allegiance . On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, coleena mendoza and michael balvazar who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, any communications . I have none to report. Colleagues, today, we are approving the meeting from the ...

In trying to protect the Small Businesses that so it doesnt just become a city of two or three giant corporations and couple of people working for them on the side as independent contractors or what have you. So i do think that its important to hear what that side of it. And i appreciate that the legislation addresses a lot of these issues. And if my colleagues have more ideas on ways to improve the legislation, i am happy to support it. Thank you. Commissioner dwight. I support any effort to reduce waste whether bit plastic bags or cardboard or styrofoam. I want to get back to the basic funda...

Qualitative view. They did not do a baseline before. What they are finding now is that they can say through survey data, that 90 percent of the time when the person enters a store, they are bringing in a bag. It does delay the need to have some good baseline data. The country of ireland did a similar thing where they started out about, oh gosh, about 21 cents per bag. What was interesting in ireland when they put in their 20 cents per bag they saw a huge change in behavior. Over time people acclimated to that cost of doing business, and there use of Reusable Bags and started to drop off. When ...

You have a quorum. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. pledge of allegiance. . pledge of allegiance . On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, coleena mendoza and michael balvazar who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, any communications . I have none to report. Colleagues, today, we are approving the meeting from the may 14th, 2019 board meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Motion made by supervisor fuer an...

First iteration. And we believe that theres still a significant number of San Francisco residents who are not doing as you are and bringing Reusable Bags. We want to get their attention. With respect to the equity issue that you raised, it is foremost on supervisor browns mind and really sort of one of the primary concerns along with Small Businesses and the impact on them that this legislation would have. And were one, if you are shopping with snap benefits, you are already excluded from this charge. So our lowest income folks who are shopping on food stamps and the like, they are not going t...