to wrap up, i wanted to say that this legislation encourages the restaurants in san francisco, including fast food restaurants that offer on healthier meals, to offer healthier options with incentive toys. the examples i have up here are based on the joy that my daughter has had in dragging me to mcdonald s and burger king, talk about, and kfc, but i am someone who is a consumer, but i think the least that the industry can do is create healthier standards that need basic nutritional standards for our kids. it is about the future of our children and our community posey held as well. i just wanted to thank you for coming out, and i look forward to the discussion today. before we call up the deputy director of our department of public health, supervisor maxwell, can we call a couple of parents that need to leave and open up for public comment right now? many parents that have come out or children not want to speak on the issue. i know there are a number of them. children that
that if they are in the overflow room, to come forward. both are with the bayview hunters point food guardians. if they could come forward, and if there are many children and teachers that i know that are here, i think they should come forward as well because i hope they could be at the top of the agenda, so i m going to do my best to thank everyone for coming forward to testify today on our healthy meal child of the city ordinance in san francisco, and you can probably see that i am someone that consumes fast food. the taco bell/kfc at 6th and geary probably knows me by name because in there all the time. i do want to say that this ordinance is really about the most important thing that i do as a supervisor. there s nothing more important than the help of our children, and that motivates me to create with supervisors chiu and campos this ordinance. the epidemic of obesity in this country is making people sick, particularly our children, and it is like staggering rates. toys
the proposal before you today is anti-democratic and destructive, and we urge you not to support it. good afternoon. this legislation needs additional work. the version i have seen is better than the zero original version as introduced, but it still has some questions, and eat you amend today, i would urge you to continue this and ask for more discussion. i think it would be helpful if the planning department were asked to convene a community meeting or workshop to discuss this. paul talk about this upn project from last summer that was a good start upon notification procedures, but they never got to environmental review, and i think this would be a good opportunity to explain what the current deadlines and requirements are and what would be proposed here and to try to work out some of the issues. there are some important, and i think in some ways a good, parts of this legislation, but in its current form, it still needs additional work. we should have timely appeals and de
supervisor chiu, do you have closing comments? supervisor chiu: obviously, there are many members of the community, including members of this board, that are still trying to understand the changes that were made. ms. rodgers just laid out the 11 changes that were made, and i would love to see that in a document that needs to be disseminated to the public. the suggestion of having more public comment on this makes sense. there was work done before the commission, but now that it is you before the board, the importance of that i think cannot be underestimated, so i look forward to working with supervisor alioto-pier s office and planning. the concerns that were raised i think are well founded, and we have to figure out how not to throw the baby out with the bathwater as we try to figure out a way to improve the legislation without gutting would have been important protections for the community. on behalf of supervisor alioto-pier, i want to thank members of the public and com
both are with the bayview hunters point food guardians. if they could come forward, and if there are many children and teachers that i know that are here, i think they should come forward as well because i hope they could be at the top of the agenda, so i m going to do my best to thank everyone for coming forward to testify today on our healthy meal child of the city ordinance in san francisco, and you can probably see that i am someone that consumes fast food. the taco bell/kfc at 6th and geary probably knows me by name because in there all the time. i do want to say that this ordinance is really about the most important thing that i do as a supervisor. there s nothing more important than the help of our children, and that motivates me to create with supervisors chiu and campos this ordinance. the epidemic of obesity in this country is making people sick, particularly our children, and it is like staggering rates. toys like shrek, captain america, spongebob are toys i found