Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, march 14, 2017, madam clerk please roll call. Commissioner breed commissioner cohen marry no presents commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim not present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen not present commissioner safai commissioner sheehy not present commissioner tang commissioner yee madam chair we have quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you m any communications. I have none to report madam president and colleagues any changes to the approval of the january 24, 2017, and january 31, 2017, Board Meeting minutes. Seeing none, is it a motion to approve those minutes moved by commissioner tang and seconded by commissioner kim colleagues well take that without objection. Overseeing Meeting Minutes will be pas
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Opposed . We are now in executive session. Session . Madam secretary. All right. I move to revine in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I would like to disclose that in close session on february 14, 2017 the Port Commission meeting the commission unanimously approved the appointment of cathy pouchony as the Deputy Director and finance and administration and i would like to disclose anything ulc discussed. Thank you. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to 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 advice the cell phones and sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Please be advised that the chair can remove anyone for the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing
Madam secretary. Roll call. Commissioner willie adams. Here. Kimberly brandon. Here. Leslie katz. Here. Motion for approval of the minutes for february 28. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Item 3 comment on executive session. Is there any Public Comment on executive session and Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary. Item 4 executive session. Move that we go into executive session. Session. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . We are now in executive session. Session . Madam secretary. All right. I move to revine in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I would like to disclose that in close session on february 14, 2017 the Port Commission meeting the commission unanimously approved the appointment of cathy pouchony as the Deputy Director and finance and administration and i would like to disclose anything ulc discussed. Thank you. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary.
We have seen these tv clips about various members of senators around the country with having town Hall Meetings there for example this past weekend indiana was one of him. Had tremendous town Hall Meetings. A lot of Good Exchange of information. So, with this looming house of Representatives Health care bill which i refer to as trump care since the president has endorsed particula it, i wanted to see a particular group in our society that is extremely vulnerable, and that is that the Older Americans, but not old enough to be 65 to be eligible for medicare. E now, by the way be careful because there are people lurking these halls in the administration that would like to raise medicare eligibility from 65 67. That is not what is confronting the house of representatives. It is what is going to happen to those people for their healthcare below the age of 65. Once they get 65 under current law they are eligible for medicare. Go to i reached out to a group of floridians, group i did not know