[gavel] good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, november the 18th, 2014. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll . Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Campos not present. President chiu . Present. Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Present. Cohen present. Supervisor farrell . Present. Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Here. Kim present. Supervisor mar . Mar present. Supervisor tang . Tang present. Is supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in 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. Colleagues, we have our october 7, 2014 Board Meeting minutes. Could i have a motion to approve those minutes . Motion by supervisor mar, sec
Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in 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. Colleagues, we have our october 7, 2014 Board Meeting minutes. Could i have a motion to approve those minutes . Motion by supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor farrell. Without objection those Meeting Minutes are approved. [gavel] madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President , i received a commune caution from the office of supervisor campos that he will not be present in the chamber today. And with that, why dont we go to our 2 00 p. M. Special order. Madam clerk . The first item of business is the mayors appearance before the board. No questions were submitted from eligible supervisors representing the even districts. The honorable lee is present in the chamber and is we
Thousands of parttime workers just live paycheck to paycheck, but also hour to hour because of abusive oncall scheduling and a lack of job equity for parttime and on call worker. Our communities have been grappling with these economic hag including the cost in housing costs, and [speaker not understood]. Members of my own family work and have worked for large retail chains like the gap, starbucks, mace i. [speaker not understood] lack of hours and unpredictable schedule. I talked to a mother of three who worked at mcdonalds for ten years. We heard many stories in our Committee Hearings over and over again documenting the impacts on many worker in our city, many of them women and largely from immigrant and communities of color. But this one mother of three going to work every day was difficult for her due to the regular verbal abuse and demeaning treatment from her manager and constant pressure to work faster and faster and despite having 7 years of work experience, her manager began cu
Groundbreaking events 100 years ago. And you cant get green. Bicycles with friends. Today is the 30th Anniversary of the crackdown in beijing one of the most prominent critics of the Chinese Government since that time is the chinese artist ai wei wei whos lived here in germany since 2015 he creates works on a monumental scale and right now a museum is staging a monumental exhibition of his works. Its the biggest retrospective of ever seen in europe the new exhibition and dusseldorf shows his most important works of recent years. Including 60000000. 00 Sunflower Seeds out of porcelain each one handmade an individual but they all seem to
dissolve into one mass an emblem for Chinese Society everything is art everything is politics is an exhibition that delivers on its name. In the last years i way way has gone from a dissident chinese artist to an International Celebrity the cameras crowd in to get his picture but he counters with his own lens his own view when i moved to germany many exp
A passion for art. Eventually he decided to dedicate his life to it becoming an independent Exhibition Organizer nowadays hes one of the most in demand curators in the world. That reputation is well earned ten years ago who founded the art space savvy contemporary in a former been in power plant in two thousand and fifteen he became one of two artistic directors of the gallery there doing two years later he became part of that you were tural team at europes most important art show the documentary and he set to be artistic director of the two thousand and twenty dont speak exhibition in on him. And deacon has consistently promoted exchange between western unknown western perspectives he rejects the common prejudice that real art is a western phenomenon while what comes out of africa is tribal art. And big message is clear we should always stay open to new points of view. With welcome. Theyre going thank you very much for coming in. And we saw all there youre a highly qualified scientist