Supervisor safai good afternoon. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the january 17, 2018 meeting of the rules commity. My name is supervisor ahsha safai, and to my left is supervisor jane fewer and to my right is supervisor yee. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements today . Clerk please. Please make sure to silence all cell phone and related electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 23rd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor safai thank you. Unless theres any announcements other than that or any additional comments, can you please call item number one. Clerk yes. Item number one is an administrative code to declare the second monday of the month to be Indigenous Peoples day. Were joined by supervisor malia cohen, so were going to hand it over to supervisor cohen for her remarks. Happy new year. Im excited to be here. And im happy to be talking about this particular item with you. I want to thank supervisor safai and ye
Appear on the january 23rd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor safai thank you. Unless theres any announcements other than that or any additional comments, can you please call item number one. Clerk yes. Item number one is an administrative code to declare the second monday of the month to be Indigenous Peoples day. Were joined by supervisor malia cohen, so were going to hand it over to supervisor cohen for her remarks. Happy new year. Im excited to be here. And im happy to be talking about this particular item with you. I want to thank supervisor safai and yee and fewer for hearing this item today. I think its incredibly important and quite frankly overdue. This ordinance that were going to be discussing today is very straightforward and its really an update to our administrative code. It requires that the second monday in october each year shall be known as Indigenous Peoples day rather than columbus day and that all city communications, notices, calendars
Come february 16th and join with us new year day. Thank you. Next, another ally in building strong connections across San Francisco cultures. Someone i have been grateful to collaborate with in my career in San Francisco. I want to welcome chinese Newcomer Service director george chan. Hello everyone. Im george chan, the executive director of Newcomer Service center. Thank you for letting us join this event. speaking chinese applause okay. Our next speaker is someone i have had the pleasure of working with, we have worked together on crosscultur crosscultural collaborations, please welcome sarah wong. I want to shout out to all the Community Based organizations, helping out and walking along in chinatown to talk to merchants about safety during new year. I want to shout out to all the special volunteers. Thank you for their work. I wish everyone well, health and happiness in the year of the dog. Thank you. applause now i want to Welcome Assembly member choy, representing chinatown. Goo