And will be joined shortly by supervisor malia cohen. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and all documents to be included in the file should be given to the clerk. Okay very good. Thank you. We have several appointments up for us today and lets go on to our first one. Item no. 1. Item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing two members terms ending november 16, 20016, to the Bicycle Advisory Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Very good, we can go straight ahead to presentations. I know the district 11 seat applicant, casey allen, will not be here, but i believe mr. Mark brand is here. Please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. By the way, i have worked with casey allen and i think hes really Great Committee member. Ive been on the Bicycle Advisory Committee for a few years now and i consider it a great honor. I have been a bicycle mechanic for many years ive worked also in the Transportation Industry doing shipping,
And will be joined shortly by supervisor malia cohen. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and all documents to be included in the file should be given to the clerk. Okay very good. Thank you. We have several appointments up for us today and lets go on to our first one. Item no. 1. Item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing two members terms ending november 16, 20016, to the Bicycle Advisory Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Very good, we can go straight ahead to presentations. I know the district 11 seat applicant, casey allen, will not be here, but i believe mr. Mark brand is here. Please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. By the way, i have worked with casey allen and i think hes really Great Committee member. Ive been on the Bicycle Advisory Committee for a few years now and i consider it a great honor. I have been a bicycle mechanic for many years ive worked also in the Transportation Industry doing shipping,
Right by vice chair katy tang and will be joined shortly by supervisor malia cohen. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and all documents to be included in the file should be given to the clerk. Okay very good. Thank you. We have several appointments up for us today and lets go on to our first one. Item no. 1. Item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing two members terms ending november 16, 20016, to the Bicycle Advisory Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Very good, we can go straight ahead to presentations. I know the district 11 seat applicant, casey allen, will not be here, but i believe mr. Mark brand is here. Please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. By the way, i have worked with casey allen and i think hes really Great Committee member. Ive been on the Bicycle Advisory Committee for a few years now and i consider it a great honor. I have been a bicycle mechanic for many years ive worked also in the Transporta
Item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing two members terms ending november 16, 20016, to the Bicycle Advisory Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Very good, we can go straight ahead to presentations. I know the district 11 seat applicant, casey allen, will not be here, but i believe mr. Mark brand is here. Please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. By the way, i have worked with casey allen and i think hes really Great Committee member. Ive been on the Bicycle Advisory Committee for a few years now and i consider it a great honor. I have been a bicycle mechanic for many years ive worked also in the Transportation Industry doing shipping, so i think i understand some of the issues that we get involved, that are involved in transportation in the city. Ive been working on inaudible Street Initiative and i worked with, i was a participant in the think bike workshop workshop }of 2011 where we had experts from the netherlands work with us. I have worked with folks t
Violence against Homeless People in the streets. The mythology has made it very difficult to develop the Popular Support that we need to create solutions to homelessness and has, you know, kind of furthered the acceptable use of Homeless People as a scapegoat in various political races. And when we talk about homelessness and we read about it in the media, if you take out the word homeless and you put any other word in there, it wouldnt be acceptable, yet the Homeless Population is over represented by members of the lgbt community, by African Americans, by women who are victims of Domestic Violence, disabled people, all people who experience severe oppression in our society are over represented in the Homeless Population, yet we continue to feel like its okay to talk about human beings in such a hateful and dehumanizing way. I wanted to talk about that because i feel like that is a major challenge were facing as we move forward that needs to be addressed. Continued criminalization of H