Under my powers as chair, i am appointing as an advisory group, i guess, advice to the board, myself and director reiskin to be part of the negotiations with the city and county and mtc concerning additional financing. And thats it. Thats my new and old. Anyone else . Okay. Next item, please. Item five is the executive directors board. Good morning everyone. We start off with our jobs map. So every so often, i update this jobs map and it shows the number of states that are working as a result of the transbay project. And at the july board meeting, i let the board and members of the public know that at that time, we had people, men and women working across 25 different states in the United States and 11, 500 jobs had been created just in the construction alone. Now we have over 27 stpaeuts and over 12,000 people working because of our project. So i always like to hand these out to our project and, of course, any members of the public who would like one, we will certainly give you one an
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Items acted upon today will appear on the december 1st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Or the thank you call item one. Number one the ordinance for the administrative code for the prosecution on the advertising ever sugary drink beverage on City Property thank you, colleagues in june the board unanimously passed legislation to prohibit advertising of sugary drink beverage on City Property along with two other accompanying piece of legislation concerning sugary drink beverage requiring the warning rablz on sugary drink beverage advisement and city is eliminating city spend on sugary drink beverage a week after the psa of the law the Supreme Court ruled on in a court case reed with arizona regarding the First Amendment the City Attorney reevaluated the legal issues by the sugary drink beverage advertising band ordinance this is for this reason to repeal the band well continue to enact the warning label and the spending legislation the two pieces will continue to move
Order an mri is spits out a message is this needed heres the information you can give the patient and information for you, i mean it is so thorough like physicians dont like to say im sorry well not give you the mri heres the taking talking about that have the ive suggested at some of the meetings write into the performance guarantees well at lea measures those areas and maybe incorporate the 5 questions it is a fantastic campaign and laying on the shelf waiting. Ill add in addition that the phase if youre willing to take on to 4th i recommend italy biotics for upper respiratory all the grantees are working on to the mandate topic to add to that and leverage off what the other organizations are doing. Since the doctors are the gatekeepers california we go to the doctors. Theyre the ones that came forward with the recommendation from tare society and Hospital Systems and seeing it in other h. R. Systems around the countrys but theres a whole campaign specifically doctors and talking abo
Professor i call this transit powerses Authority Meeting to order november 12th. Would you take roll please. Director kim . Present. Kim present. Director lee. Here. Lee present. Reiskin. Here. Harper. Present. Mr. tkhaeurpl ubgs you do have a quorum. Thank you very much. The first item on the agenda as usual. Indications. And i meant to acknowledge the San Francisco government tv staff for being ready for our broadcast and anyone else . Any other items on communications . Okay. Seeing none, item four director nuru, order of business. I just have a bit of new business. And that is that under my powers as chair, i am appointing as an advisory group, i guess, advice to the board, myself and director reiskin to be part of the negotiations with the city and county and mtc concerning additional financing. And thats it. Thats my new and old. Anyone else . Okay. Next item, please. Item five is the executive directors board. Good morning everyone. We start off with our jobs map. So every so of