Have been suffering from fatigue. I felt in the last year or two that their contributions while increasing were not keeping pace with the needed increases. Certainly europe now is very focused on needing to provide more assistance to help the refugees who are in the middle east and are displaced inside syria and also refugees in the surrounding neighboring countries. Then for a couple of years now we have been trying to encourage gulf states to become routine regular donors to and through United Nations appeals. And i would say weve had mixed success on this. We have seen some very large generous contributions but they tend to be onetime only checks written. Theyre not always through the u. N. Theyre nothing you can count on will happen again the follow year. Were very appreciative that kuwait held three annual pledging conferences on the syria crisis, and i attended all of them. That did help to put, you know, real money on the table. And the u. S. And kuwait were the top donors in re
Next applicant is ms. Darcy brown sounds like . Please come forward. Welcome. Good afternoon supervisors my name is darcy brown, the interim executive director of San Francisco beautiful. I will be brief. San francisco beautiful as you may or may not know is dedicated to the preservation of our neighborhoods and was instrumental in the creation of the graffiti Advisory Board in 2005 as well as in 2012, the First International conference to address graffiti, and best practices and cleanup. I personally have worked for or work with the county of San Francisco for the last 15 years and i am a native san franciscan. I am proud to be the interim executive director of San Francisco beautiful that is been around since 1947. Supervisor avalos thank you for your work. I dont have any questions. So happy to go on to the next person. I will be right back. Good afternoon supervisors unintelligible , the Vice President of Public Policy for the San Francisco chamber of commerce, asking for my second
Can you president ial keep our voices down so we can get started with the meeting thank you very much this is an osterman room 263 thank you for being here and welcome to the full board of supervisors of tuesday, september 22, 2015, madam clerk can you please call the roll. Commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen not present supervisor christensen present supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim kim not present supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener commissioner wu man and woman a quorum ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pillages for the pillages United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Clerk any communications. I have no communications madam president please read the jeanette item 1 through 4 consent calendar commission. Unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Seeing no members on the rosters
Calendar commission. Unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Seeing no members on the rosters call roll on supervisor farrell supervisor jane kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee commissioner avalos supervisor president breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen there are 11 items. Those items are approved unanimously item 5 an ordinance to amend the miranda for the Disastrous Energy reform or Recovery Fund to a category 8 funds and designated how the city uses the fund roll call vote. Supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos no supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen there are 10 is and one no commissioner avalos in the decendents okay. Those. Madam president i believe that supervisor campos wanted to resend. My apologies madam president id like to make a motion to resends the vot
This is at busy day for pope francis, where he continues to be bottlenecked. All of them holding their camera phones out. Generations. That bottleneck wont last very long, because most of those roads have been cleared. As he continues this historic tour of the united states, from the halls of power at the United Nations to the classroom in east harlem, a live look at pope francis as you saw, as he was just leaving in his fiat. Zero. He paid tribute to the victims of 9 11. He paid tribute with a prayer service, a busy day in new york, that will end before a crowd of thousands at Madison Square garden. And tomorrow, it is philadelphias turn to receive the pontiff. Heres a live look at the ben franklin parkway. Its expected to be jammed with the faithful as the pope brings his message to the city of brotherly love. One thing is for certain there, you might be able to tell if you look down at that image, the barricades are up. The final stage needs some finishing touches. Take a look at th