When irish eyes are smiling when irish eyes are smiling, they can steal your heart away when irish eyes are smiling, it is like a morn in spring it is the tilt of irish laughter you can hear the angels sing when irish hearts are happy, all the world seems bright and gay when irish eyes are smiling, they will steal your heart away applause thank you, celtic voices. I cant help myself. The beautiful young woman with the red hair is my goddaughter. Go job. Since they just arrived, San Francisco has a great history of a number of Department Heads of Irish American descent. I would like to recognize mickey callahan, department of human resources, and bill scott from the San Francisco police department, and his assistant chief mike redman over there. Thank you for being here, gentlemen. It is now my privilege to recognize the Council General of ireland Robert O Driscoll who has a tremendous connection to San Francisco because his son was born in San Francisco. No matthe matter where his care
Up to the task at hand. Thank you, con. The st. Patricks day season consists of visits to friends throughout San Francisco as well as civic events commemorating the contributions of father peter york and kate kennedy. In conclusion, we are not new york, boston, chicago, or atlanta. We are San Francisco, and we put on one heck of a st. Patricks day celebration. Embrace this and go out aptry ty to have some fun. Thank you. At this time i would like to present the certificate of honor to con lions, our grand marshall 2020. [applause] our honorary grand Marshall William bill. Certificate of honor to john cassserly. She said it was a great honor. It absolutely is. Thank you. Certificate of honor to joseph teenrjosephine. Certificate of honor to the family of agnes monaghan. Thank you. It is good to see the valley represented up here. Thank you, john. I see spying over the side of my left corner the former District Attorney susie loftus standing over there. The mayor said she wanted to see a
role call mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. I guess this is unusual, but ill say it. Please place your right hand over your heart and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that sfgtv record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , issue have one. Due to the covid19 and to protect City Employees, Board Members and members of the public, the board legislative chamber is closed for the march 24th, 2020 Board Meeting upon action made bit board of supervisors to conduct their meetings Via Video Conference call remotely. This precaution is taken on the authority conferred b by the governors order. The members will attend meetings thro
Good morning, everybody. It looks great to see all of our not old friends but long time friends that have been with us since the early days of San Francisco and also, of course, with our sister city that is 36 years old today. [applause] now we are blessed to have so many Irish Americans that have made San Francisco what it is. We have one that is very special to us, and that is our in house Irish American. That is shawn, the chief of staff to the mayor, and we have something that is going to help you because you need help, right . A shot of whiskey . No, no shot of whiskey yet. There is an old tradition of an irish stick, thush shillelag. It was something that a welldressed man had as a walking stick. Then it became sort of a weapon because we only have weapons of love and not of fighting in San Francisco. Then it was a sporting vehicle to use. Now you can buy them with a flask at the top with christi. Whiskey. We thought you would need this. As you know this is march 6th. I always th
Am the president of the commission. If you want to speak on Public Comment, you need to fill out a speaker card or you can just come to the podium when its Public Comment. I want to thank sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this media with the public, and well start with roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Thank you. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is comment on any item that is not on our regular agenda tonight. Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman next agenda item is number two, which is approval of our minutes for the february 18, 2020 meeting, and ill ask if we have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the february 8, 2020 meeting. I move to approve. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] [roll call] president bleiman all right. The minutes have been approved. Next item on the agenda is a report from our director