Nonprofit agency that advocates for open source Voting System and Good Government and also as cost saving measure. We will also hear about what paths San Francisco could potentially follow to inc. Plement its own Voting System and studying the process currently ongoing in Los Angeles County. Today before the Committee Colleagues is a resolution that expresses San Franciscos commitment to implementing and working with other jurisdictions and organizations to implement an open source Voting System. The resolution requests that lafco studied how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and we spoke with their staff and they are willing and able to do this if requested by the lafco board and supervisor mar has informed us he is interested adding his name as a cosponsor and carrying that request at lafco which hes a member. These are steps to have a more free and accurate Voting System to strengthen the public trust and colleagues if there are no comments we have a few presenters
Leadership institute and other grassroots organizations have done Great Research door to door, door knocking and advocacy. I wanted to acknowledge not only our former youth commissioner louisa c [speaker not understood] from the south of market area but also amanda from the sunset, malaysia funders, some of you may have seen advocating on different issues from the bayview Hunters Point area. Many of them kind of were from various high schools but also city college, San Francisco state as they were advocating and organizing for this piece of legislation. I wanted to also say that this ordinance specifically would amend the health code to include a cap on the number of allowable tobacco permits in each of the citys 11 supervisorial districts. While no existing permit will be taken away, a new permit would only be allowed in a district after the number of permits in that district has over time reached a cap of 45 permits. In addition, new permits have to be located at least 500 feet away
Enhanced ventilation systems to ensure that residents receive clean air in their units. This ordinance will also streamline the ceqa and permitting processes for project sponsors by clearly identifying all of the areas of the city where we know these enhanced measures are needed and will be imposed as ceqa mitigation measures. This legislation has been a part of an overall strategy to help keep residents of the city, and particularly those that suffer disproportionately from a wide range of Environmental Issues because of where they live. I want to thank the department staff, particularly karen cohen from the department of Public Health, wade w. From the Planning Department for their work on this very important issue. My apologies, wade, i just cant pronounce your last name. I want to thank supervisor kim for shining on as a cosponsor as she has ate large portion of her district which falls within the air quality hot spot zones. So, colleagues, i do can for your support in this importa
Project sponsors by clearly identifying all of the areas of the city where we know these enhanced measures are needed and will be imposed as ceqa mitigation measures. This legislation has been a part of an overall strategy to help keep residents of the city, and particularly those that suffer disproportionately from a wide range of Environmental Issues because of where they live. I want to thank the department staff, particularly karen cohen from the department of Public Health, wade w. From the Planning Department for their work on this very important issue. My apologies, wade, i just cant pronounce your last name. I want to thank supervisor kim for shining on as a cosponsor as she has ate large portion of her district which falls within the air quality hot spot zones. So, colleagues, i do can for your support in this important legislation. Thank you. ~ supervisor kim. And i want to thank supervisor cohen for bringing this before the board. Air quality becomes an increasing concern am
Reporter only hours after biden departed, ukraines government accused prorussians of shooting at a military aircraft and torturing and killing two people. In response, ukraines acting president ordered Security Forces to resume operations in the east. The u. S. Wants russia to pull its forces back from the eastern border and engage diplomatically with ukraine. John and diana . All right. Abcs Tahman Bradley live for us in washington this morning. Thank you. And president obama is arriving in japan this morning. The first stop on a fournation tour of asia. The situation with russia and ukraine is hanging over his visit. Abcs devin dwyer is traveling with the president. He joins us, now, from tokyo. Good morning, devin. Reporter good morning. President obama is finally keeping good on his rain check from last year. Thats when the Government Shutdown canceled his last planned visit here to asia. Today, he embarks on his fifth trip to the region, here in japan. The white house says preside