Good afternoon, welcome to the february 11th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , and supervisor yee. Mr. President , all members are present. Supervisor yee ok. Thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts to the public online. Are there any communications. I have none to report mr. President. Ok, then, lets go to our 2 00 p. M. Special order. Special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the appearance by our honorable mayor, london n. Breed. Theyre being no questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 14, the mayor m
Thank you. [applause]. [background sounds]. Good afternoon everyone, im kate brown, im governor morgan and chair of the mba health and human services. Thank you governors for your great remarks and i appreciate everyones patience as we took such break. Im delighted that all of you are here today to join us to talk about a critically important issue that is facing our young people. That is the nicotine epidemic. In the Health Crisis the public Health Crisis that we all know is vaping. It is claiming too many lives and is making countless of our Community Members sick. While the nicotine addiction is not a new issue, the vaping epidemic National Attention this last summer, we learned of the outbreak of lung injuries and deaths associated with ecigarettes, and vaping products. Many of this product may contain nicotine in addition with other chemicals. As of january 21st, 2020, until of 2711 cases of hospitalizations have been reported from our 50 states due to ecigarettes and vaping produ
The Trump Administration formally notified the United Nations today that the u. S. Will withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Even more depressing, they did it via oil spill [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause according according to the new york times, President Trump rarely tweets in front of others because he does not like the glasses he needs to wear to use his phone. [ laughter ] i also dont like wearing my glasses, said melania [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause thats right President Trump does not like the reading glasses he needs to wear to use his phone. Plus, as a rule, he has to pick on himself nice glasses, four eyes shut up [ laughter ] yesterday was daylight savings day which means six months of freaking out every morning when you see the clock on your stove. Oh, no, no, no [ laughter ] oh, no, im late oh, no, no. [ laughter ] according to reports, white house Senior Adviser Steven Miller got engaged over the weekend. No word on where he got the ring or as he calls it,
Good afternoon, welcome to the february 11th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , and supervisor yee. Mr. President , all members are present. Supervisor yee ok. Thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts to the public online. Are there any communications. I have none to report mr. President. Ok, then, lets go to our 2 00 p. M. Special order. Special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the appearance by our honorable mayor, london n. Breed. Theyre being no questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 14, the mayor m
Address Climate Change, student debt, and the impeachment trial of President Trump in the senate. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Thank you so much. Thank you, liz for that beautiful introduction and for your great leadership. Thank you. All right, thank you very, very much. And then also i want to thank todd, beautiful job. Thank you for your work and all you do for working people. Thank you for that. Molly, who has been with me since the st. Patricks day parade. Where are you, molly . There she is, very good and i also know rob is here. Thank you. Rob is way ahead of his time on Climate Change and you should all be really proud of the work that he has done and then also where are you . Right over here. Thank you. Its great to have her nationally. Everyone comes up to me all the time. Janice, where are you, janice . A new member of the iowa city council. Thank you, and janices support means so much and i also want to mention our great organizers ray rachel, keira, mohammad, and claire