Bringing those things back to public memory is something fascinating. Ive spent the last eight years living in canada. Every time i took the plane backandforth, one day i said i will do that and go by boat. I never imagined i would do that on a tall ship. I had everything to learn. I learned absolutely everything on that boat. It is amazing how much we have learned and accomplished in such a short amount of time. American history tv is featuring cspans american original series, first ladies. Cspan produced the series in cooperation with the White House Historical association. Through conversations with experts, video tours of his door excites, and question from cspans audience. We tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now, julia grant, on first ladies, influence and image. This is about an hour and a half. Susan swain serving as first lady from 1869 to 1877, by all accounts, julia grant relished the role, once commenting that life inside the white house was a garden spot of orc
Be joined by Vice Committee member and, supervisor katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the clerk of the committee, do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the filed should be submitted to the clerk, today will appear on the december, 13th, board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. . Ethank you, and colleagues, and everybody from the audience, we have a long agenda, as is the annual tradition, before the holiday break, in order to accommodate the schedules we are going to make a few changes. So item 19 is going to be called out of order by 11 30, and item 17 will be called after 11 30. And also, in the beginning here, madam clerk, could you call, item 18, please . Item 18, here activation of the three publicly owned buildings, in 60, 11, 35, and 45, and including activation and construction time line and, budget is s
Is so clear and i have known about you since my under graduate days of stanford when we were fighting for your 10year at stanford. I appreciate all you have done. Given all your accomplishments and the demand for your service, i guess my next question is do you have time for this . I sure do. Ive been told by a couple of former members of the commission how much work it is and ive been told the version where you can do the minimalist version but you can do the meaningful version and thats what i choose to do. I pledge to you that i will devote a massive amount of time on this because i want what i believe you want. I want there to be change so that the types of incidents that weve seen are minimized or eliminated for heavens sake if we can, and thats what im pledge to go do and i know how much work its going to take and im ready to work at that time and roll up my sleeve and get under the hood and do the work. My final question. If there was a concrete or specific issue area you could
In the is that 5gallon or less include does that 5gallon or less is what we see in our offices, in a lot of the offices in the city. The dispensaries. When former mayor implemented his executive order reducing the use of single use plastic water bottles, i know our office eliminated the water, the big water container in our office. In our city, our best source tap water come from our hedge reservoir, not from imported plastic jugs. With the city, we spend somewhat some where around 98,000 a year on this type of water in our offices. What i do in my office is we have pitchers of water thats provided to folks so that were not using more and more plastic and that we are being consistent in policies like this. This policy was strongly urged by our department of the environment and i would strongly urge support for it. And i guess the question this is considered a single use container then . Thats why im confused. I thought they keep on using it. So it would be the type of plastic container
Chris and [inaudible] and i think in the relationships over the years there would be conflicts that would happen. And i was thought there is more work that needs to be done and we have to make this place work and we have to Work Together and i really appreciate all of the ways that people would drop any anchor that happened with previous conflicts to be able to drop that moving forward for our districts in each and every one of you. There is one other thing that i want to say before i ended tonight and i cant believe i just lost my train of thought to be able to do that. Overall colleagues, this is been the greatest job that ive had my life so far. I want to make sure that im going to enjoy whatever i do next. But ive actually i have actually contemplated this being at the board of supervisors for about 20 years and i didnt think about when i got to the city in 1989 or1986 i had an internship at coleman advocates and i was asked to do [inaudible] and i always thought it was something t