And welcome to the local Agency Formation commission. My name is john avalos the chair of the commission, joined to my left by london breed, the vicechair. And commissioner eric mar and to my right by commissioner hope schmeltzer. The clerk of the committee is alisa miller and i want to thank sfgovtv staff who are broadcasting today. Madame clerk, could you please call the next item. Roll call, would you like me to call the roll. Commissioner avalos . Here. Commissioner breed . Breed is here. Commissioner campos . Campos absent. Commissioner mar . Here. Mar here. Commissioner schmeltzer schmeltzer here. Mr. Chair, we have a quorum. Great. Lets go to our next item, please. Item no. 2, approval of the lafco minutes from the january 24, 014 regular meeting and march 3, 2014 special joint meeting with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Colleagues my comments or questions of the minutes . Okay. Seeing none, we can open this item up for the many people who are in our audience wai
Tang present, wiener present, supervisor yee. Present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of allegiance. President david chiu colleagues we have our december 10, 2013, Board Meeting minutes. Motioned by breed and campos. Those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . There are no communications today, mr. President. Can you read our special order. The first item is the policy discussion by mayor edwin lee. Sfitem 140022 [formal policy discussions january 14, 2014] pursuant to charter, sections 2. 103 and 3. 100077, and administrative code, section 2. 11, the mayor shall answer the following eligible questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 1, 5, and 9. The mayor may address the board initially for up to five minutes. Discussion shall not exceed five minutes per supervisor. 1. Mayor lee, we are in the midst of a Housing Affordability and evictions crisis not se
Role in the plane to algeria. The aircraft was being operated by a Spanish Company for air algeria. At least 116 on board. The jet was 50 minutes into its flight when contact was lost. The French Foreign minister believes the plane crashed in northern mali. Despite the rash of plane crashes in the past week this air traveller says he is not fazed. The air algier crash was the 47th in seven days. 298 people were shot down over eastern ukraine. It makes you think twice about what happens and what is on your mind. Reporter including the still missing Malaysian Air flight 370. That makes four commercial flights that have crashed or disappeared in four months, all coming at a time when fatal plane accidents are down. At the end of the day we have to look at the whole picture. And flying remains far safer than you even getting in the car. Two french fighter jets are now searching the remote area of mali searching for the plane. Violent clashes have been in the area for years. 74 more coffins
Reporter you know, larry, right now its like Grand Central station here at the civic center plaza. Let me just tell you that the streets around here will start closing at 7 00 this evening. And tomorrow other streets will begin closing at 9 00. Ill be like your mother right now, youve got to use public transportation. And finally, remember this in 2012 . It was horrible. Lousy. Because there were so many people around here. They hope it will be a lot better this time around. This is one of eight floats that will take sponsors of the jins down the street for the giants grand prize. Im only 29. Look what the stress did to me. Reporter his team has not stopped working. Not even to watch last nights win. Master float builder davis thomas holds a special place in his heart for this float. We were cutting that when they lost game six. You dont know how hard it was to put up, dont stop believing, instead of maybe give up believing at that point. It was really, really hard. We were so happy th
Good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, january 14, 2014. Madam clerk please call the roll. The clerk yes, mr. President. Supervisor avalos, present, breed, present, campos present, chiu present, supervisor cohen, present, farrell present, supervisor kim, kim absent. Mar absent. Tang present, wiener present, supervisor yee. Present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of allegiance. President david chiu colleagues we have our december 10, 2013, Board Meeting minutes. Motioned by breed and campos. Those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . There are no communications today, mr. President. Can you read our special order. The first item is the policy discussion by mayor edwin lee. Sfitem 140022 [formal policy discussions january 14, 2014] pursuant to charter, sections 2. 103 and 3. 100077, and administrative code, section 2. 11, the