Time i was sworn in as a new member of the board of supervisors and became very an acquainted with uncle ben. This fund is in honor of his lifes work to raise money for promising bayview use aspiring to their higher educational goals. On an annual basis we have from friends while a Community Mourns a giant, we have many memories of uncle ben and his memories will live on so many who will up lift and move forward our next leaders of our nation. With that said, madam clerk, i want to recognize the family and Community Members here in the chamber who have come to celebrate mr. Robinsons memory with us. Please stand, thank you. Thank you for joining us. I would like to have a motion that we close out the entire Board Meeting in honor of mr. Ben robinson. Thank you. Thank you. I think at this point we can all agree that homelessness in San Francisco has not only reached a crisis but an emergency. Our overall Homeless Population has stagnated for many years. We have far too many families and
Fell in love with it. I have been interested in politics since i was a kid. I worked on campaigns as a teenager. I was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. When i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. When i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. I helped to build the Lgbt Community center. I started doing campaigns. I gradually got involved in Democratic Party politics. I got involved in the alice b. Toklas democratic club. I ran for the Democratic Central Committee in 2004. I ended up sharing the committee. It was a gradual process for me. By the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. What did you learn from campaigning for supervisor . I learned a lot. I knocked on about 15,000. I knocked about 15,000 doors. I met a huge number of people. That is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and w
To it you cannot have people that will not trained and qualify to do this job thats all i want to say i want to make sure i understand this s i s is currently under investigation by the California Bureau the security and investigative services; is that correct. Thats right for using unlistened Security Officers at the academy awards. Thank you for confirming that and being here. Thanks. Good afternoon, supervisors im owen a business represent for local 510 we do all of the temporary exhibit work on the hotels and jurisdiction stretches carrot Northern California and do temporary exhibits in many, many venues i command the fact proprietors that your landmarking landmarking for a protocol for special event we will profit but even at a late stage were beating the bushes to find out where it is coming from we here that operating wages are offered for the work we dont know the types of vendors western in the room with other unions and candidates were made and ask that Going Forward that we
Presentations i think we have dph staff who is here to also be part of the presentation for you. Okay. Im derek smith. I appreciate the supervisor bringing this issue forward in my things to the commission. I know we spoke a couple years ago around the issue of Electronic Cigarettes as they were emerging and i got some very good questions the couple rounds of presentations that we did with you and ultimately were supportive of sensible Electronic Cigarette regulation did i like to think the Small Business commission and a particularly commissionerin adopting Healthy Retail work for Small Businesses making sure that Small Businesses can thrive and at the same time committees can thrive in a way that supports all of us and the wellbeing of young people and the elderly and everyone in our community. I speak briefly about the harms which im sure the well known to you, but simply that tobacco is the number one cause of death and disability in the world. Its not an equal opportunity killer.
Appropriate for me to say it is good to be politically alive laughter im overjoyed to join you greg suhr and commission and also staff and all the officers that are part of this wonderful department family, friends, and especially those who are about to be promoted he congratulate you as well its been very interesting last four and a half years i want to say im here because i know a few of the individuals also but here as part of the support team for our Police Department and as the 403 mayor of this wonderful city we have a lot of work that weve already done to have been a successful city has we are i wont be the first one to say our city cant say you been successful unless were a safe city and all of you on the front lines are making our city save but im also had the pleasure of being the mayor in 3 world series celebrations one nabbing celebration and americas cup on the eave of hosting the incredible 50th shakespeare and get to enjoy it is finite Police Department it is to say that