Way our collective a Derrick Evans and thank you jesse larson and mark for staffing this meeting mr. Clerk, any announcements . Eating and drinking is not permitted in the gallery my documents should be submitted to the clerk items will be on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you mr. Clerk please call the first item number one a hearing to consider pointing out the members were in resident of the poll from the clerk of the board which supervisor fewer expressed interest all other supervisors declined the 143 corbett avenue to be appointed. Thank you, madam clerk supervisor fewer would you like to say a few words or straight to Public Comment. Straight to Public Comment. Okay. I guess mr. Clerk can i make a motion to recuse supervisor fewer without a second. Yes. A few Public Comments first and then. Okay. Thank you. Lets hear from Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . Members of the public have two minutes state our first and last name speak dire
February 27, 2017 will begin shortly. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco Committee Committee meeting for monday february 27, 2017. My name is mark mark. I will be chairing this committee. I am joined by supervisor katy tang and supervisor aaron peskin is not in town today so we will take a motion to excuse him in a minute. I want to thank our clerk and sfgtv staff for covering this meeting today. With that mr. Clerk do we have any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the file should be submitted to the clerk. All items acted on today will be on the march 17, 2017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you very much want mr. Clerk. Again supervisor tang, supervisor peskin be absent today. Can we have a motion to excuse him . Move to excuse supervisor peskin. We will take that without objection. With that mr. Clerk can will call item number 1. Ite
And then you and guys going again and he said, what did you say . I can stand so much and then i say, look get one [ laughter ] they work [ applause ] big deal. What did you say . [ laughter ] put that in put that back here what did you say . Were you im going to wait until you get that. Oh, excuse me. [ laughter ] oh, yeah. Let me ask you a question, now. Were you reluctant for a while to get that . Yeah, yeah, of course, thats a natural thing. But i noticed it. Around gloria a couple years and i noticed i found that gloria was always and she didnt say anything about it the thing is, i didnt hear it. Didnt hear the telephone. So i went to a doctor and he said, well, yeah. How do you know that your hearing is gone . And i said, well, i cant hear the telephone bell and my wife has to answer the telephone. He said, well, get a louder bell on the telephone. [ laughter ] and this worked for a while. Yeah. Except, we started waking the neighbors. [ laughter ] when it started sounding like b
[ music ] okay, we are back. Thank you, doctor. We have Jimmy Stewart with us tonight. Hodding carter iii. Im looking forward to meeting Hodding Carter iii. I admired him tremendously during his really difficult days right after the immediate seizure of the hostages. Where he had to go out everyday for the state department and the government and explain to all those reporters what was going on. You got to be fairly cool because they try to oh, yeah. Throw you some curves, knowing the press. Starting shopping yet . Not yet. You really i always like to wait until the last minute, yes. Wait until the last minute. I dont believe that you wait until the day before. You say you do, but how can you wait until the day before . A man can do you go to a store, you say wow. I want the following trinket. You ought to write that down. I want to put that on stone tablets a man can do what he wants to do. I go to certain stores theres certain shops you go to where they not only allow you to shop yes.
[inaudible] i dont know what has been said, but i would like to maybe so has already raised this point. I dont really see, i dont see how the age of twitter, if thats what age we are in, obviates longform journalism. First of all im reminded of one of the great jazz trumpeters luster was asked, what do we know about jazz . He said it depends on what you know. If you want long form listen, its out there in many forms. To the extent it is as much as used the, many things besides twitter are at fault. But there, i think twitter can actually be a facilitator to all forms of journalism. I know, you know, listen, ive also people like Stephen Colbert just because its fun. I follow a lot of people because i know that they will link me to Interesting Articles about ukraine or cyberwarfare or something that im otherwise going to miss. And so i say twitter you know, used in a certain way. And i assume as most of you, see it as a great facilitator, a new kind of curator that was otherwise unavaila