Ballot measure when it goes before vote es. I thought long and hard about it, but im concerned about how this ballot measure attacks some of the low income communities without a clear direction of how these monies are going to be specifically used for these particular community. By distributing them through the various departments theres no clear oversight or accountability and nothing that makes it clear to me that anything is going to change so today i wont be supporting it and i will appreciate the comments of all of my colleagues here. I realize there are fact or data, theres information, theres a lot thats out there. Not everywhere opposed to this bat lol measure is associated with the Beverage Industry and i want to make that cheer because i feel as if this is being forced down peoples throats and was that, like, a pun or something . [laughter] but ultimately i think that already better ways in order to address this problem. Had it before for sugar in general i would be more open
Supervisor yee, 40 of the funds will go into the San Francisco Unified School District. The San Francisco Unified School District is a strong supporter, as was the board of education, and for my two former colleagues and president s of the school board, perhaps you werent listening when we had a number of hearings at the board from the yale red center on food policy and obesity to the center of science for public interest, to ucsf, to harvard. Its rr clear education alone is not enough to address the Severe Health crisis were in. All the researchers come to that conclusion. You need various local policy measures and also as i said before, increasing access to alternatives and reducing consumption of harmful beverages, but very clear conclusion, education alone is not enough. I also wanted to say to my colleague, norman yee, the parent organizations through the city have been the power of the Grass Roots Campaign we built from the Second District pta to individual ptas having vigorous d
Education i mean, ive urged for many, many years and decades a go to say to the department of Public Health in San Francisco, wheres the funding to help education parents on this. So regardless of the outcome of this ordinance, its real important for this Chamber Members of this chamber to urge the mayor and others to support more resources going into the education piece of this. So thank you very much. Supervisor mar. Yeah, let me just im a little bit flabbergasted right now. Supervisor yee, 40 of the funds will go into the San Francisco Unified School District. The San Francisco Unified School District is a strong supporter, as was the board of education, and for my two former colleagues and president s of the school board, perhaps you werent listening when we had a number of hearings at the board from the yale red center on food policy and obesity to the center of science for public interest, to ucsf, to harvard. Its rr clear education alone is not enough to address the Severe Healt
That have been raised against it are very valid points and ultimately im supporting this measure because i believe that in a close call with Something Like this, im going to air on the side of giving voters the choice and thats why im supporting this, you know, to give voters the opportunity to decide for themselves what the right approach is. And i do think that for me, the fact is unless we do something different, unless things change, the Health Issues were identifying that supervisor mar and others talked about, are only going to continue and get worse. That said, i do think that there are legitimate concerns about this measure. It is a regressive tax, it is a regressive tax to say to the pop haitian that has been targeted by these companies, that youre the ones that are going to bear the brunt of how to pay for the funding of education and other things. Thats an issue for me. That said, i still dont know what the right proper, you know, non regressive way of funding something is a