Good afternoon. Welcome to the december 1 meeting of the board of supervisors. This will be one of the three meetings in december. And the third to the last, i believe, that i will be on. So madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] supervisor safai, were you able to join us . Mr. President , you have a quorum. Supervisor yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciteling the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The Meeting Minutes will reflect that Board Members participated in this proceeding remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though p
The private equity giant 3g capital sold 20 million shares but there is a reason behind it. Stocks are set to open slightly lower well start off with that wework news, of course sort of trickling out yesterday, after the close. A delay in the planned Public Offering that has been so, well, such a focus over the last few weeks. As the price at least that wework thought it would get for its shares has rapidly declined over concerns about its Business Model, over concerns about governance, ever since they actually issued the s1, which mr. Cramer didnt take a fancy too, a lot of this goes back to mr. Adam newman, the man who founded the company and runs it. And this has been a chaotic process. Having reported on it now for a couple of weeks, i can sort of tell you ive never seen anything quite like this in terms of the disarray in preparing for a Public Offering. And i guess what was clear and perhaps funlly made clear to them was they werent ready. They were not ready to actually face pot
Students,0 4, 2018, survivors will march on washington. They will be joined by students from around the country who want nothing more than to be safe in their schools. When i ask what i ask of President Trump and my colleagues and especially speaker of the house paul ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is this meet with these students. Let them share their stories. Facetoface with you. In theat this can happen hometowns in your own districts. Know that gun violence is an everyday tragedy in our country. What if these were your kids or your grandchildren . What would you do then . We know what we need to do to safer from guny violence can we know the solutions. We just need the courage to act. It is time. It is time for republicans in congress to show just a shred of the courage of the Stoneman Douglas students. It is time for speaker ryan to let the house vote, to require background checks on a resale and transfer, to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists, to o
Cspan is brought to you by youe or satellite provider. The communicators looked at technology and its impact on voting and democracy recently with speakers at the state of the net Conference Held in washington d. C. Heres a look. Host katie harbath, is the Global Politics director for facebook. What does that entail . Guest being the Global Politics and government outreach director means that myself and my team who are situated across the world work with governments, elected officials, candidates on how to best use facebook to communicate with citizens. And then we also help to work on facebooks overall efforts in elections which includes protecting the integrity of elections on our platform whether thats through preventing foreign interference, fake accounts, etc. , but then also helping to teach people how to use their Civic Engagement tools so more people can have a voice in the political process. Host people heard you say what you did, and theyre going you didnt do a very good job
The the communicators looked at technology and its impact on voting and democracy recently. With speakers at the straight of the net con present held in washington, dc. Heres a look. Couldy harbath is the Global Politics director for facebook. What does that entail . Guest being in the Global Politics in government outreach director means dismiss my team, who are situated across the world, work with governments, elected officials, candidates, on how to best use facebook to communicate with citizens and then we also help to work on facebooks overall efforts in elects, which includes protecting the integrity of elections on our platform, whether threw preventing foreign interference, affection accounts, et cetera, and then helping people how to use the Civic Engagement tools in the political process. Host lets go to the first one. People said you didnt do a very good jo in 2016. Guest certainly thing that happened on our platform in 2016 that shouldnt have and we take great responsibilit