Thats really about democracy. Its about Good Government and how can anyone really be against democratic elections. So, colleagues, i hope we can all come on board with this as it move to rules committee and gets placed on the ballot. And we can give san franciscans the type of democracy that he he we all believe is worthy of this great city of ours. The rest ill submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to speak about two item. The first one i do want to add my voice in supporting the Charter Amendment that has been introduced by supervisor avalos. In the last few months ive had a number of constituents and residents of the eastern half of San Francisco who have asked me questions about, you know, what happens when there are vacancies, including vacancies on those board of supervisors and consistent with the statements that i have made, i believe that it makes sense that when there is such a vacancy on this board or any other off
Assessor until february 2013. And there are no there are virtually no other examples of this lack of public process in filling vacancies in many place around the country. The colorado governor makes [speaker not understood] to fill a vacancy [speaker not understood]. The mayor of philadelphia make appointment of vacancies in their city, but there is no other executive office where they have this ability. This will bring us in line with processes for filling vacancies in our state and federal legislative bodies. Example, appointees that happened over the years. There have been 23 appointees to the board of supervisors since 1960. Since 1960s. Since we moved on from that administration there have been 15 appointees to the board of supervisors. There is only one case of an appointed District Supervisor losing in the subsequent district election. At one point willie brown had appointed six members of the board, many of whom he described as his sure votes on the board of supervisors. Gavin
America, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of use of cell phones paymenters and similar sound producing advices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chair may order removal for the person responsible out rippinging of or use of a cell phone pager or other sound producing electronic device. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertv netctionv Public Comment on each agenda item unless they adopt a shorter period. Item 8 Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Okay, yes. I think there is an item on the agenda, 9c . Well call for that one i believe the chair is calling for item 8. Jerry doll. Good afternoon, commissioners, nice to see you again. My name is kerry doll. Im an employee of Darling International pier 92 here in the port of San Francisco and a member of the International Long sh
I am so looking forward to the street fair tomorrow. It is in the mission, how are we going to get there . We are not driving. Well what do you suggest . There are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to find them all, sfnta. Com. Sfmta. Com. It is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. Sitting in front of my computer waiting Transportation Options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. The new sfmta. Com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. Cool. But, lets just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay . It might be much more fun to ride our bikes. I am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. Okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. Neat. We can finish making travel plans over d
Anything else discussed in closed session. Second. Second. All in favor . Aye. Okay. Item 6, 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. Please be advised that the ringing of use of cell phones paymenters and similar sound producing advices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chair may order removal for the person responsible out rippinging of or use of a cell phone pager or other sound producing electronic device. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertv netctionv Public Comment on each agenda item unless they adopt a shorter period. Item 8 Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Okay, yes. I think there is an item on the agenda, 9c . Well call for that one i believe the chair is calling for item 8. Jerry doll. Good afternoon, commissioners