Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the regular meeting of the San Francisco full board of supervisors for tuesday, october 18, 2016, madam clerk call the roll supervisor avalos supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim commissioner mar not present. Supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor tang present supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor yee . Present present madam president we have quorum ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance 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 accommodations none to report madam president colleagues, any changes to the board minutes of september 6th or 7 september 13 . Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the minutes seconded by supervisor tang clarifications without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will be approved after Public Com
Eye on the regional institutions it didnt happen right here were the capital of a diverse economically powerful region and you need good strong institutions to help support the idea that were going to have Regional Economic development and equitable outcomes and housing throughout the whole region to do that correctly you need to make sure the institutions that are responsible for Regional Government are strong and independent and can take in the issues you need to resolve right now we reorganized Regional Government so it in the first step the staff the Transportation Commission and abag have been consolidated but the second part is left undone we need the governance model to look at regional issues beyond transportation we cant say have all the regional issues reporting introduce the Transportation Commission that type of structure didnt make sense for a region as complicated so therefore the agreement with there will be in any governance models put fort to address the regional issue
Supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim commissioner mar not present. Supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor tang present supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor yee . Present present madam president we have quorum ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance 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 accommodations none to report madam president colleagues, any changes to the board minutes of september 6th or 7 september 13 . Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the minutes seconded by supervisor tang clarifications without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Okay madam clerk go to the first item the approximately order for the mayors appearance before the board colleagues california i entertain a motion 0 moved by supervisor farrell and seconded by supervisor peski
Commissioner mar not present. Supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor tang present supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor yee . Present present madam president we have quorum ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance 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 accommodations none to report madam president colleagues, any changes to the board minutes of september 6th or 7 september 13 . Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the minutes seconded by supervisor tang clarifications without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Okay madam clerk go to the first item the approximately order for the mayors appearance before the board colleagues california i entertain a motion 0 moved by supervisor farrell and seconded by supervisor peskin colleagues without objection without objection the mayor is excused
The mass shooting at an Oregon Community college in october that the president decided he had to take executive action on guns. He made the announcement today in his weekly address, posted on the white house web site. A few months ago i directed my team at the white house to look into any new actions i can take to help reduce gun violence, and on monday, ill meet with our attorney general, loretta lynch, to discuss our options. Reporter sources tell cbs news those options include expanding the definition of who is in the business of selling guns so that more gun sales trigger background checks and requiring enhanced reporting and tracking of lost and stolen guns. Today, the president blamed the Republican Congress for giving him no choice but to take unilateral action. We know we cant stop every act of violence, but what if we tried to stop even one . What if congress did something, anything, to protect our kids from gun violence . Reporter last month, Senate Republicans blocked democr