San francisco feels like home more than any other place ive lived but its getting hard to breathe here. I hope not to have to leave, but im planning my exit. If you value the contributions of artists, that artists make to the quality of life in San Francisco, consider me [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is dorian maxwell. I want to talk about how this board needs to audit the Planning Commission. They really need to audit the Planning Commission because San Francisco infrastructure has changed dramatically over the years. Its no longer looking like the place for tourism and things. Now its a melting pot for corporations. This Municipality One time was a municipality is now corporatized. What now needs to happen is before any new legislation pass for the sfmta to fund muni, it needs to be an audit of the business practice of the sfmta Human Resource department as well as the operations of the sfmta. This is a criminal organization that was approved in 1999 by
Bus advertisements and stand with our San Francisco muslim and arab communities. The rest of my item i will submit ~. Thank you, mr. President. That concludes roll call for the introduction of new business. Why dont we now go to general Public Comment. At this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including the policy discussion between the mayor and the board, item on the adoption without reference to committee calendar, and the closed session the subject matter of item 30. Please note Public Comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to Public Comment at a board committee. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors nor to the audience. And if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when youd like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Lets hear from our first
Why dont we now go to general Public Comment. At this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including the policy discussion between the mayor and the board, item on the adoption without reference to committee calendar, and the closed session the subject matter of item 30. Please note Public Comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to Public Comment at a board committee. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors nor to the audience. And if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when youd like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Lets hear from our first speaker. Good evening, supervisors. Im peter wolf, executive director of Library Users association. The loss of ted gul acson, as all of you who spoke about it mentioned is a very sad and very serious loss.
Alameda county were sued by the pharmaceutical industry for similar ordinance, San Francisco decided to put our efforts on hold. In the meantime, San Franciscos department of the environment launched our citys voluntary drug take back program. And i worked with the department of the environment and the pharmaceutical industry to secure funding for the Pilot Program. But unfortunately over the last 21 2 years, over 40 of our small Pilot Program has been funded by the industry. This program has been remarkably successful literally taking 18 tons of unwanted drugs off the streets and out of the sewer of our city. We are here and im actually introducing this today because two weeks ago the 9th Circuit Court of appeals upheld alamedas ordinance affirming the ability of local governments to acquire medicine manufacturers to provide for the collection and disposal of medicine. This ruling gives our city the ability to take our Pilot Program, make it permanent and expand it to meet our real ne
Week and has been basically killed off by the owners, while certainly we did not agree with them all the time, there is a great loss in having the loss of that voice and newspaper in general. I wanted to talk about the last time i spoke with you, the last couple of times, i spoke about [speaker not understood] magazines september he edition which featured [speaker not understood] on the cover and recapped all of the things that weve learned about the invasive surveillance that goes on by our government and suggested that the supervisors should have be concerned that every department including itself review what the implication are for the citizens of San Francisco. We call on the supervisors to require reviews by all city departments, including especially the library which has not done such a review to review the privacy threats to citizens and to provide full disclosure of the relatively newly revealed threats. Thank you. Thank you. And they went into capernaum and straight way on the