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[speaker not understood]. [laughter] were going to excuse him. I want to apologize to the public that unfortunately this meeting lasted a little longer than we expected and i do need to go to another meeting. But one, i need to go brush my teeth. [laughter] and two, im proud to be a cosponsor with the leadership of supervisors cohen, wiener and maura round a measure i think all of us care about. And the Scientific Data is overwhelming and profound and something we need to set the example of in San Francisco. So, i just want to say na, and thank you. Thank you. applause and i just wanted to use...

And i just wanted to use the example from madness how [speaker not understood]. The Surgeon General reported Smoking Health first came out in 1964. Sfgovtv, can you please put the overhead on . It was not until 1988 when they actually banned smoking on shortterm u. S. Flights. It wasnt until 2000 that it was banned on all u. S. Flights coming or going to the country. So, its one of those things where i think when were looking at change, its hard for patients and people to take messages that they hear about whats good for them, [speaker not understood]. I think its one of the things that you al...

Pieces of ethics ordinances that require online reporting of lobbying activities, require the Electronic Filing of campaign statements, and updates to our city conflict of interest codes. But in my second term i have a much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transparency. This legislation is designed to increase Public Confidence in the everyday workings of our lo...

The everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it very clear that we are not saying with our legislation that these activities cannot or should not occur. We are simply saying that its important for the public to know when they do occur that there be transparency. As Supreme Court Justice Louis brandeis once said, sunlight is the best of disinfectants. I want to briefly summarize the changes that we...

Sugar sweetened beverages. So, San Francisco Community Clinics partners see about 38,000 dental patient visits per year and its all in the lowincome and minority patients. All of our centers are located in the neighborhoods that were previously described by my colleagues and really were the people who can tell you on the ground what we see when we look in the mouth. Tooth decay is something that is often called the silent epidemic by the Surgeon General and its really the number one chronic disease in our chill chren in this country. Its 10 times more common than asthma, seventime more common ...