[gavel] good afternoon. The Commission Meeting will please come to order and the secretary will call the roll. Commissioner pating. Present. Commssioner singer. Here. Commissioner chow. Present. Commissioner chung. Present. The second item on the agenda is approval of the minutes is for the minutes. There is a motion. Second. Are there any corrections for the minutes . If not were prepare for the vote. All in favor of the minutes please say aye. Aye. All those opposed . The minutes have been approved unanimously. We will provide to the next item. Item 3 is the directors report. Hello commissioners. I want to let you know that National Public health week is from the fourth to the tenth this week. The department is active on social media participating in a twitter chat and highlighting different programs for the San Francisco department of Public Health and social justice, healthy communities, and Healthy Youth and healthy food and we have a twitter identification if you would like to fo
Job, i have health care, teamster pension in the green zone and now an 18yearold that isnt cut out for college. I wasnt cut out for college. Thats why i too k this job. These are good paying jobs for us. Whats going to happen to us if this passes its not just a soda tax. There is more than soedz being taxed. We are labeled as bad people which i feel us as workers are being attacked for this. Das being taxed. We are labeled as bad people which i feel us as workers are being attacked for this. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Mitchell Parker and im a parent. And in district 1 and i work a few blocks away from the public housing. Im here representing the Second District pta. We unanimously endorse this measure or this initiative, the legislation in february. Im also here representing the parents of Political Action committee and we are supported this initiative back in the fall. I think we can agree that parents want the same thing and that is the best chance for success for their ch
Towards education in this bill just makes me feel so proud of this city and what we are doing. So i really support it and thank you very much for your work. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment on this item, please come forward. Good afternoon. Item kate listen with the parks alliance. Its a busy day for parks and we are happy to be here in support of the tax. I want to speak on behalf of the organization that we represent through our par ner program that are also in support of these sodas tax. The hidden garden, friends of plaza park and we strongly encourage you to pass this along and we are excited for this tax. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, mr. Chairman, may we close Public Comment . Public comment is now closed. Colleagues, i thank you for this time and thank you to the departmental staff and thank you to the public. It is time to pass this out of committee to the full board of supervisors.
Performing students to help prepare them for college. We read philosophical tests ranging and wrote revised College Level essays. At the same time i worked with the lowest performing students who had yet to pass the state tests of the with them we did mindless test prep. Even though i was really good at it getting 100 of those students to pass their exams in my final year doing it i was doing the students no favors. I think about a senior who could hardly write and struggled to read. Sure she passed the test but she was still ready, she was not ready for the Community College work she encountered that fall. When we focus efforts only helping struggling students jump over a hurd definitely mandated exams the learning an opportunity gap widens. My Current School harvest collegiate is a member of new york performing standard consortium of a group of 48 schools that offer more alternative model. We use more rigorous Testing Systems than state exams. Highstakes assessments are not on demand
Gota and from department of Public Health that liquid forms of sugar are different from consuming cakes or other types of products that in many ways the impact on the liver and also our body doesnt tell us to stop consuming sugary beverages and thats critical between sugary beverages in drinks like this. Our coalition s f has been great in getting this out there. The campaign is leading to more opportunities in the high school and not just here but centers four youth population is getting the message out there. Im hoping these types of questions that keep coming up will see youth oriented ways to explain many different communities. I think it was reverend walker from the bayview that said that science is on our side. I think if we go through all the hearings on the impact on the African American community and latino that i think that scenes science comes out and i think its important for our department to raise awareness in schools and Public Places as well. I want to say every single