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Supervisor yee good afternoon. Welcome to the october 8th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you mr. President. [ roll call ] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in 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. Supervisor yee so, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, tom and madias who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, were in receipt of two communication the dade the october 27th, 2019 from supervisors haney and walton stating they will be absent today in request to be excused from the meeting. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse haney and walton from at
Supervisor yee good afternoon. Welcome to the october 8th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you mr. President. [ roll call ] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in 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. Supervisor yee so, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, tom and madias who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, were in receipt of two communication the dade the october 27th, 2019 from supervisors haney and walton stating they will be absent today in request to be excused from the meeting. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse haney and walton from at
Yes, not only today, but most of the week. May even hit the 80s by thursday. High fire danger all week long. Looks like wednesday night into thursday will be the critical times here. Its still to northeasterly breeze already offshore. Result is 80s near 90 today San Francisco to santa rosa, 86 for the city today. High fire danger, fire weather watch. They may update that to a warning over the next couple days. Its close. Really dry conditions with that offshore breeze. 44 at napa airport and sfo. Everything goes up and over, 70s and 80s with above average temps up there. Sal, start with a at what . The Richmond Bridge feed. Youll have to wait in the line at the Richmond Bridge at the toll plaza if youre going that way. Maybe on highway 37, also slow getting out of valet vallejo. These commutes are pretty typical, 47 minus go traffic killing your gas mileage. Plenty of it here. Okay here cr entire commute. Southbound 101, we have slow traffic heading down out of san bruno because of a c
Committing is going to call about. I have been chair since july. We are yet to have a meeting. You have to stop doing certain things and focus on the most important things. This is a discussion item. There is no item other than to say we will figure out how to use this document. Is there Public Comment . That concludes item 16. There is an old adage. Never fall in love with an investment. You have fallen in love with the investment and that is hedge funds. You have got to bite the bullet and divest from them. You are going to find in a few years there will be big losses. If any of you Board Members are politicians or want to be politicians what you are going to see on the front page of the chronicle, the San Francisco pension fund lost hundreds of millions of dollars in high risk investments like hedge funds. Once again, i think you should start divesting from them. Item 16. Next item. Declaration of vacancy on retirement board occurring february 20, 2020 and approval of election proce