Please stand by. [ gavel ] good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, september 16, 2014. Madam clerk, please call the roll. City clerk yes. Supervisors avalos, present, breed, present, campos, presents, president chiu, present, supervisors cohen, pre, ferrell, present, kim, present, mar present, tang present, supervisor wiener, pre, yee present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Please join us 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. Madam clerk, do we have any communication . There is no communications today, mr. President. If you can go to our special order. The policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and board of supervisors. The president will recognize the supervisor who will present her own question and following questions are in order as long
September 16, 2014, city of San Francisco city council meeting. Board of supervisors please stand by. [ gavel ] good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, september 16, 2014. Madam clerk, please call the roll. City clerk yes. Supervisors avalos, present, breed, present, campos, presents, president chiu, present, supervisors cohen, pre, ferrell, present, kim, present, mar present, tang present, supervisor wiener, pre, yee present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Please join us 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. Madam clerk, do we have any communication . There is no communications today, mr. President. If you can go to our special order. The policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and board of supervisors. The president will recognize the supe
Please stand by. [ gavel ] good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, september 16, 2014. Madam clerk, please call the roll. City clerk yes. Supervisors avalos, present, breed, present, campos, presents, president chiu, present, supervisors cohen, pre, ferrell, present, kim, present, mar present, tang present, supervisor wiener, pre, yee present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Please join us 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. Madam clerk, do we have any communication . There is no communications today, mr. President. If you can go to our special order. The policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and board of supervisors. The president will recognize the supervisor who will present her own question and following questions are in order as long
The parish schools in San Francisco. We all want our kids with ands teachers and schools to be safe. Thank you to supervisor wiener for his leadership. President david chiu colleagues, any additional comments . I want to echo supervisor ferrell and just note that yesterday marked the first important deadline of our mandatory retrofit program for individuals to step up and conduct a screening process and we saw a 90 percent compliance rate which was an incredibly High Compliance rate for this first step. I want to congratulations mr. Leaney and look forward to further work in this area. With that, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call . Without objection this ordinance is pass side on the first reading. Why dont we skip over our 230 30 special order and go to item 10. City clerk item 10 2014. 10. 140939[board response civil grand jury the port of San Francisco, caughtbetween public trust and private dollars]resolution responding to the presiding judge of the superior co
React react react. Moral is clearly down throughout the entire department. I know this because i hear from members day in and day out. We get their text message and their letters and phone calls and the complaints are not about pay or work conditions. Firefighters and paramedics work hard, they are paid well and by and large they like what they do. The complaint of the department of not giving them the tools they need to do their job. They are tired of standing by a patient for 45 minutes wait ong an ambulance that is not available and tired of going to work in the morning knowing its going to happen again the next day. All of these issues, as bad as they are are the pretext, the lenses of which i ask you to look at the real crisis. The Fire Department and medical emergency services, constitutes over 70 percent of the calls going to the department. I held a hearing at the government Audio Committee on january 23, budget analyst reported when the department literally does not have an am