Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay marrying item one. Resolution ryan white authorizing the District Attorneys Office to congratulate expend a grant in 2. 1 million for the claims board for the project compensation for crime victims for july 2015 through june 30th, 2018. From our das office. From the Victims Department our investments of criminal served many victims we have refrltdz navigating them through the relocation and emergency assistants we get this grant from the state the state requires the resolution to congratulate receive funding do you have any questions for me. I dont see any colleagues okay. Thank you. Puncture appreciated well move on to Public Comment anybody wish to congratulate comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed colleagues, we have this item can i have a motion to congratulate send this forward. Without objection. Marrying item 2. Item 2 resolution reeves to congratulate accept and extend to the laguna honda hospital and Rehabilitati
Good morning. Today is september 9, 2015. Welcome to the rules committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is john avalos, chair of the committee and to my right is katy tang and to my left is president london breed who is here in place of supervisor cohen. Our clerk today is alisa somera and the meeting is brought by sfgtv. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . S yes, please silent all cell phones and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the september 22 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. First could we have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. So moved. And seconded by supervisor breed and take that without objection and item 1. Item 1 is a motion of reappointment to have bryant tan for the Successor Agency commiss Entertainment Commission. Hello and please introduce yourself what you hope to do with the reappointment. Thank you. I am bryant tan and seeking reappointment for another term on the Entertai
Because we have found that it is not material to safety or nutritional composition. And appreciate that. Let me, in the case of sugar. Right . We, sugar processors require to label whether refined table sugar comes from, i guess the question is, are sugarw km processors required to label whether refined table sugar comes from a certain species or plant . . Im sorry, i dont you dont require fine table sugar to label whether it comes from sugar beets or from cane. No. Why . Again, i think its a question of materiality. Would consumers be rkykcany,d they get any benefit if that labeling requirement for fine table sugar also had a requirement, well, tiie is beet produced fine table sugar or sugar cane fine table sugar . Again, what we focus on is the attribute of the food at consumer we think would eat it. For the genetically engineered ingredients in foods today, is there any evidence that they vary in their objective characteristics in any meaningful or uniform way . No. Not as a class.
Facts. So is if you revise8xiv whatn the nutrition panel, and you decide theres some additional themes that ought to be in jn there, then that would cut across the entire Food Industry in a significant way, in terms of revising its labels, correct . Yes. B 9nnyg thank you. Timesjn the chair recognizes five minutes. Thanks for your 30 years of service. I understand youre closer to beginning at this point. Ay thank you for your good work. Its been interesting to watch. I think lots of folks bv watch this hearing this morning have been surprised by the certainty youre expressing around the 7n science. You used the word consensus. Ti z ill try to parse into that a little more. That can be 80 20 or 90 10. Tell me how much science there is that would refute your position with respect to the materiality of genetically engineering food being safe . ipr t hahp hc again, as a class, that theres any question about safety. Based on the row eviews we have done. Go ahead. There are obviously scient
This rim will affect more mornings commute even though storm trackers showing renewed the bay area right now right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s but what were looking at is the temperature and to point over oakland where rain is but it is not making it to the ground because of the temperature the difference between the ground and air temperature has to be between 23 degrees for the rain to make it to the ground all of this is going to impact us into tomorrow mornings commute and well talk more about that in future cast into the rest of the week a 66yearold woman is dead following a car crash along highway 680 in martinez earlier this evening. This is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. The woman was a passenger in a honda pilot suv. That had overturned near pacheco boulevard. Officials say the suv sideswiped an acura. Lost control. And collided with another car before it overturned. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Four other people were transpor