Public comment will be taken on each item. When your item comes up and Public Comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. You may submit Public Comment in writing email them to myself the rules Committee Clerk at victor. Young sfgov. Org. If you submit via email it will be forwarded to the supervisor jz part of the file. You may send comments to u. S. Mail in city hall, 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco california 94102. Please silence cell phones and electronic devices. Documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on beard board of thank you, i like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronan from today s meeting . On the motion to excuse supervisor ronan from todays meeting, on the motion, supervisor preston, aye. Supervisor safai, aye. Vice chair walton, aye. The motion passes without objection. Thank you. Please call item 1. Item 1, motion approving rejecting the president of the board o
Meeting. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll . Thank you mr. President. Chan, present. Dorsey, present. Engardio, present. Mandelman, present. Melgar, present. Peskin, present. Preston, present. Ronan, present. Safai, present. Stefani, present. Walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming th
Youre watching quick bites, the show that is San Francisco. And today youre in for a real treat. Oh, my food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in San Francisco. Were at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. This is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much Delicious Food here. And i cant wait to share it with all of you. Lets go. Armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. Today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. This is our 55th year and in San Francisco were the largest armenian Food Festival and widely recognized as one of the best Food Festivals in the area. We have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. We really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and thats really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our
Must stand up and shout out. Our pension budgets must not exassrbate the issues. We must limit for the safety of our residents and wellbeing of employees, working and retired. I call on my colleagues on the retirement board to join us, take our childrens future seriously and finally divest from fossil fuels. Ladies and gentlemen, i stand with you, im excited and im looking forward to casting my vote this afternoon. Thank you. applause thank you supervisor cohen. I want to make a few more shoutouts. First, as we just heard, this is not a conservative issue. This is not a liberal issue, this is not a moderate issue. This is not a progressive issue. This is a moral and financial imperative. To that end, supervisor cohen, supervisor breed and myself serve as members of the Democratic County Central Committee and it was our colleague keith boraka that issued it to divest. That passed unanimously. Thank you keith for that leadership. Thank you to bay. Org, fossil free sf, indian people organ
With 25 jobs so for young people one of my favorite days in San Francisco thank you, thank you to the companies that are hiring. clapping. the city of San Francisco and united way are calling an employers to have jobs for youth in 2012 president obama issued a challenge and the challenge was get disconnected young people connected to jobs and so mayor ed lee said we should lead this challenge that the city will have 25 hundred jobs that first summer 6200 jobs and been building. Ill high are ups we like to pledge 50 jobs so for youth this summer. Excellent. Thank you. A large part of the jobs it did manual Resource Center started off a a Youth Program and our first year 35 percent of the Young People Working fulltime we know there the pressors looking for committed young people the resource fair attracts over 6 hundred people if all over the city and the greater bay area. We have public and private partnership the employers came from hertz rent a car and many private sector jobs sea hav