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Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, january 9, 2018, madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call taken] you have a quorum. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President breen thank you, madam clerk, any communications. Clerk none to report. President breen colleagues, a motion to approve the minutes of november 14th and november 28, 2017, moved by su...

Introduction for the major legislation for keeping families in San Francisco. There are so many reasons why we need to do this. We have been the leader in providing preschool opportunities for the 4yearolds since 2004 when i was able to help develop the preschool for all program in San Francisco. We started, when we looked at the stats in 2005, the number of, percentage that had preschool exposure was 57 , and today, the 4yearolds, we actually have 92 of 4yearolds receiving either preschool or prekindergarten services. The fact that so many of our mainly mothers miss the opportunity to be part...

You have a quorum. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President breen thank you, madam clerk, any communications. Clerk none to report. President breen colleagues, a motion to approve the minutes of november 14th and november 28, 2017, moved by supervisor kim, seconded by supervisor farrell. Can we take that without objection, approved after Public Comment. All right, madam clerk, call the first item. Clerk spe...

I think it lines up with the 10 change of other jurisdictions and realizing this was the threshold. We werent sure why it was set the way it was back in 2003. We didnt see a strong justification for that at the time. What was the justification in new york city for 10 . I guess it was they had a substantial white paper done by nyu on the number of individuals that were associated with contractors and business entities in the city that were giving and they had given around 25 of all contributions. We have not been able to do the same analysis that was done by a university working with the Campai...

Victor makras with whom wed be nowhere. When the board of supervisors passed this fossil free sf was born. And it was born as me going alone to the retirement board and getting glared at. Luckily things changed shortly thereafter and its only continued to grow and grow and grow. As youve heard the retirement board has been recalcitrant to say the least. So i want to thank you supervisor avalos and peskin and the staff of the offices for getting us to this point. I dont really have anything to say besides this is an exceptionally common sense measure. We need to put the citys money where its mo...