Good afternoon, and thank you everyone for joining us here today. I am london breed. I am the mayor of San Francisco. I am joined by the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee along with other members of the board of supervisors. The director of the department of Public Health, our police chief, bill scott, and the department of Emergency Management director mary ellen care ron. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. As you know. The city has been working to prepare for what we know would be a significant Public Health challenge here in the city, and we are seeing it play it out all over the bay area and all over the world. As the city prepared its response, we explained to the public we would be year every step of the way what the challenges are and the steps we need to take to protect Public Health. Some of the challenges we have, of course, faced from an economic standpoint as well. Every step of the way i want be to thank not only members of puckly for your under
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President yee okay. Good afternoon. Welcome to the march 17, 2020 regular meet ongoing meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors, even though its not regular. Madame clerk, the roll . Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee 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. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that
I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fi
role call . Mr. President , all members are present. 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. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv, Mia Hernandez and kalina mendoza. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , i have one to report. We received correspondence on february 14th, 2020 from mayor london breed communicating her veto of the ordinance with 2. 7 millions of general reserve conditioned upon an executed agreement at city college. Pursuant to 9. 104, my office received no request to consider this veto and therefore, file 1961 stands. Thank you, madam clerk. First of all, i want to apologize for starting a little late. We had a little press thing with the mayor announcing some issues that youll hear about in the paper. So colleagues, today we are approving the min