Items acted upon today will appear on the march 15 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, thank you very much for the announcements can you please call items one and two together. Item numbers one and two an ordinance claire declaring the tension of james alley as port of Chinese Hospital for the settlement and quit exclaim deed for the easements thank you. Supervisor peskin is the author of these two items. Thank you, madam chair and colleagues these are two instrument necessary for helping the Chinese Hospital move forward the first is a resolution of intent to vacate a street actually truth be told a half of a street 6 and a quarter of wide wide by 37 feet deep 90 necessary for the completion of the incredible many decades effort to rebuild a size administratively Chinese Hospital in district 3 in chinatown you first of all, want to commend the many individual that have been revolved in the rebuilding of this facility i saw a reactor facility and wanted to a
Good afternoon, everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of march 1 22nd. M clerk please call the roles we did thank you. Supervisor avalos aye president s agreed, present. Campos, present. Cohen not present, the farrell, present. , kim, present. , mar, present. , peskin, present. Tang, present. , wiener not present, yee not present. You have a quorum. Ladies and gentle please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] madam clerk either any Communications Clerk none to report colleagues any changes to the generate 26 2016 Board Meeting minutes clerk seen no changes, a motion to approve those minutes moved and seconded. Can we take that without objection . Those we passed after Public Comment [gavel] can you please read the consent agenda. Items one and 2 are on consent. These items are considered routine if a member objects, and item may be removed and considered separately seen no names on the roster item clerk these culpable on the con
Good afternoon, everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of march 1 22nd. M clerk please call the roles we did thank you. Supervisor avalos aye president s agreed, present. Campos, present. Cohen not present, the farrell, present. , kim, present. , mar, present. , peskin, present. Tang, present. , wiener not present, yee not present. You have a quorum. Ladies and gentle please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] madam clerk either any Communications Clerk none to report colleagues any changes to the generate 26 2016 Board Meeting minutes clerk seen no changes, a motion to approve those minutes moved and seconded. Can we take that without objection . Those we passed after Public Comment [gavel] can you please read the consent agenda. Items one and 2 are on consent. These items are considered routine if a member objects, and item may be removed and considered separately seen no names on the roster item clerk these culpable on the con
Present, yee not present. You have a quorum. Ladies and gentle please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] madam clerk either any Communications Clerk none to report colleagues any changes to the generate 26 2016 Board Meeting minutes clerk seen no changes, a motion to approve those minutes moved and seconded. Can we take that without objection . Those we passed after Public Comment [gavel] can you please read the consent agenda. Items one and 2 are on consent. These items are considered routine if a member objects, and item may be removed and considered separately seen no names on the roster item clerk these culpable on the consent calendar supervisor wiener aye, yee absent avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye, mar aye, peskin aye, tang aye. There are 10 aye those ordinance are finally passed unanimously [gavel] bettencourt item 3 item 3, and ordinance to establish an infrastructure financing district including subproject area. 70 t
Leadership that you have shown and the people in this room have shown, including the chief beck. Mandatory minimums are an important part of how the federal system is set up, but since 2013 when he smart on crime policy was announced by thenattorneygeneral holder, federal prosecutors have been instructed not to use mandatory minimums except in cases that really merit their attention. In other words, aggravated felons, the leaders of drug organizations, violent people. What thats meant is that our use of mandatory minimums has probably dropped by about 25 in that time. But so far we have not seen a corresponding drop in the willingness of lowerlevel conspirators to cooperate with us. In other words, what we are seeing in the smart on crime policy is a direct ability to reduce mandatory sentences while still protecting the public. So the bottom line is, you asked the question should we eliminate mandatory minimums entirely. And i think the answer to that is no. But we have to reserve the