Joining me is norman yee. I want to take a moment to thank our friends at sf gov tv for assisting us with todays broadcast. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements today . Yes. Please silence all cell phones. Items will appear on the january 9th, 2018, agenda unless errwise stated. Thank you. Were Getting Started late today. Well try to make up the time as we go. I want to thank you for your patience. Madam clerk, can you call item one. Regarding sorro commons. This is item one. Mayor lee is a sponsor of this particular legislation. Weve got amy chan from the department of housing to represent the housing and community development. As a refresher, supervisor tang, they need more time to resolve the outstanding issues with the lender, and they request that we postpone this. I would like to give ms. Tang an opportunity to expand on this a little bit more. Good morning. Thats correct. Were asking for the call of the chair. Were hoping to resolve the issues be the lend ever before todays
And chair nuru. Present. Clerk mr. Chairman, you have a quorum. Go ahead and call your next item. Item 3 is communications and i understand that the chair has something chair Mohammed Nuru so i think that everyone is mourning the passing of the mayor in the last few days and i know that for me its been difficult because he was not only a boss but a close friend of mine, but more importantly he was a champion of this project. When i joined the board there were a lot of financial needs and concerns and trying to make sure that we got the project to the way that it is now and we were able to finish it and through his leadership, really stepped up and did everything on behalf of the city. To make sure that the city could do its part. Of recent, i mean, weve had closed discussions about the asidelinement and what should alignment and what would happen with phase two and i think that we should take a moment of silence to mourn him. Thank you. Clerk well move into the next item on the agenda.
Sal saido has more now on the historic day. Reporter with the cut of a red ribbon, the California Green rush was in full swing in San Francisco. People in my life have been fighting for day. Reporter the apothecary yum in the Castro District didnt open until candidate a. M. But dominic rio wanted to be first in line. Got here at 4 20 this morning. Reporter symbolic . I thought it was. Reporter before today you needed to have a Medicinal Marijuana card to make a purchase in the city. Not the case anymore. We have been around seven years. We have been anticipating it for a long time. Reporter only a handful of dispensaries were given the on friday to start selling recreational weed this weekend. San francisco businesses had to wait for the city to iron out its regulations. We had issues we had to work through. There were people who frankly didnt understand cannabis. Reporter bus was good at the harvest in the richmond district. Activity double to triple what we normally do. Reporter with
Under a laundry and we are, when we have these emergency orders to vacate that are issued either by the Fire Department or ourselves, we are trying to, the supervisors are trying to establish a fund that would be able to provide ongoing tenant assistance for up to a twoyear period. As this did pass through committee, it had the first unanimous, before the last meeting on december 12th, it will probably pass when the board resumes business in january. And then it will move into the budget phase in terms of how exactly its going to get funded. But those funds would be in addition to, as you know, according to the City Attorney where there is this Relocation Assistance formula that does often come into play where the Property Owner is responsible to provide a certain amount of payout that may help people for obviously a shorter period of time other than that, and this is the fill in a gap for this much longer situation as we know given the current housing market. Vice chair. Over the last
A Fremont Police ford f150 vehicle before she was taken into custody. The detective who was hurt had a moderate leg injury. The female suspect who was hit by her cohort is reported to be in stable condition. Fremont Police Confirm there are no outstanding suspects. None of the womens identities nor the name of the Police Detective have been released yet. Thats the latest from hayward. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Two children and an adult were seriously injured in a crash in antioch this afternoon. It happened just before 1 00 on somersville road near highway 4. The Contra Costa County Sheriffs Department says a deputy was tailing a stolen white truck. Deputies say it appears that once the driver realized this, he changed direction, got off the highway and barreled right through an intersection running a red light and slamming into a gray truck. Ktvus alyana gomez just arrived on the scene and is live now with more on what happened. Alyana. Reporter good evening, frank. We are going to