Its a closed session . Its Public Comment, not public question and answer. Its on the agenda. That is a poor excuse. Im sorry about that. And then i really think you should be doing foundation and proposals to incorporate mexico to be part of the united states, so you wont be pitting us against each other. Thank you very much. Because what you are doing with your federal laws that you are talking about. We can only comment on the you can only comment on the closed session. Thank you for being here today. Are there any other members of the public who would like to provide Public Comment at this time on the closed session . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [ gavel ] colleagues can we go into closed session without objection . Without objection, the board will go into closed [ inaudible okay. Colleagues, the board took no action in closed session. May i have a motion to not disclose any portion of the closed session discussion . Moved by supervisor farrell, seconded by supervisor ye
Are there any corrections to the minutes . Hearing none or seeing none, all those in favor of the minutes please say aye. The minutes have been approved unanimously. Thank you, commissioners, item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Yes, please. Were so happy to announce that San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center has officially been licensed and is ready to receive patients. We want to thank all of the people who worked so hard to make this historic mile stoeb possible. I know our ceo is in the audience and just want to let her know how lucky she is to move into a brand new hospital this weekend and i know she will be working hard along with many. Also, just to let you know, we have have 24 7 it teams ready to support the new hospital. They will be on call for a whole week and then of course they will stand down if things look good in terms of any issues. So i think that is one of the best news. Also mayor lee did announce his department of homelessness
Terrorist to obtain firearms and calling for expanded background checks. The democratic senators, Barbara Mikulski and tim kaine have joined the house members on the floor. Many of whom have been giving speeches about how the gun violence impacted the Community Back home. Now in the time to get in the way, the time to act is now. We will be silent no more. Conspiracy of silence against tackling gun violence. We are not silent anymore. We are not bystanders anymore. That is what last week was about in the senate and today is about in the house. Jeff House Republicans have no appetite to appease the democrats. Not only calling the house to recess but many republicans say they have no interest in holding vote on the gun control legislation bills. The democra about. We are in the sixth hour of the sitin. No signs at any point it will be stopping anytime soon. Live on capitol hill, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Leon all right. Thank you, jeff. See what plays out there. In the meantime we are fo
[ gavel ] good afternoon everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of march 22nd, 2016. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Thank you, madam president. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. President breed . Here. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Cohen present. Supervisor farrell not present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar. Here. Mar present, supervisor peskin present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present, madam president you have a quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us for 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. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes, madam president. From supervisor farrell, dated march 8th, requesting that he be excused from todays meet colleague
Avalos present. President breed . Here. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Cohen present. Supervisor farrell not present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar. Here. Mar present, supervisor peskin present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present, madam president you have a quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us for 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. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes, madam president. From supervisor farrell, dated march 8th, requesting that he be excused from todays meet colleagues, is there a motion to excuse supervisor faler . Motion by supervisor avalos, seconded by supervisor cohen, colleagues can we take this without objection . Without objection, supervisor farrell is excused. [ gavel ] all