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Good afternoon and welcome to the local Agency Formation commission of San Francisco board of supervisors. Today is may 20, 2016. This is john avalos, joined by cynthia crews and david campos. Todays clerk is alisa samara. Silence cell phones and electroning devices. Speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Like to announce and thank sfgtv staff broadcasting the meeting, jim smith and phil jackson. We dont have to do roll call, right . No, you stated who is here. We are here accept for commissioner mar. Do we need a motion to excuse commissioner mar . Motion by commissioner crews and se...

Is a lot of traffic in the morning. We are stuck in traffic. I feel like bob kelly. We have a jammo on the kings highway. We are trying to make it to bob kelly. Jammo in haddonfield. Mike and alex are stuck in the traffic jam, ring the bell, good morning, haddon field. They will be here in a moment. Look at this crowd here. We are ready to go at kings court in haddonfield where we have the brand new mazda that we will be giving away next week when we go up there at the dell in fairmount park. Just in case mike gets out offhanded, here they come, here comes the trolley, here they are, giving th...

General grants staff, there was a young captain named Robert Lincoln on his staff, and he, of course, was the son of president Abraham Lincoln, and he was here in the room. Another interesting participant in this ceremony was at least, maybe not participant, but a witness to this ceremony was this rag doll of lula mclean, youngest daughter of wilmer mclean. It was sitting on the couch when the officers came in, and they moved it to the mantel during the meeting. After the meeting, some of the officers took the doll off the mantel and began tossing it around. Captain thomas moore of general phi...

Ye linear deposit of hardware and nails and buttons and coins and actu actually the deposits of artifacts out there were so dense and we found glass ware and ceramics and based on the date range of them, i was fairly certain at that time that we had identified the site of the slave quarters associated with it. We did not have any funding for archeo logical research. What we are looking at is what we call structure b or the six of the structure laid out in a row. The way it manifests itself is a foundation of the stone chimney. It is i am lamsimilar of what yn the secondary house there. It is a...

Really just sort of scratched the surface out here, and theres a lot more information potential with this site. Its very unique, particularly for this area, the midatlantic region. You dont typically see slavery being practiced on the scale that it was being practiced here at leramie taj. I think i mentioned that 90 slaves is roughly 10 times the number of enslaved individuals you would have expected to be living here. So thats an extremely unusual circumstance for this area. You know, like i said, they are about 20 x 34 feet. Thats just under 700 square feet of living space. If in fact there ...