[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on january 29 board of supervisors agenda. Call item 7 out of order. Item 7, Charter Amendment to amend the chart of the city and councily San Francisco to require an annual baseline appropriation for the park and recreation open space with an election to be held on june, 7, 2016. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, i will save my comments for a full board with this measure. At this point i counted this charter measure has been in committee five months and have gone over 15 amendments. And i want to say tha
Annually at the timma board the board shall elect the newly postponed chair shall immediately precede his or her election according to the public speaker as soon as one of the nominees get a vote that person is elected and no other nomination mr. Clerk can you please call this item. Item 5 election of chair. Okay nominations are now in order for the office of the chair any nomination on the floor. Commissioner yee i nominate the current chair continue to be the chair. Thank you, commissioner. Supervisor kim. Thank you commission any other nominations . More than happy to take other nominations okay seeing none, nominations are closed oh, im sorry is there a second to commissioner yees if noting no further well open up for Public Comment on this item any Public Comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed excuse me. . Okay. Mr. Clerk call that same house, same call . Well do that same house, same call . At this time we will take nominations for the office of vice chair. Co
Well hear from barbara garcia. Good morning the district will have roving teams to make sure that the medical needs and the Mental Health needs of clients are taken care of were working with the outreach teams for the serviced to make sure they know that the sheltered will be available particularly our Homeless Outreach team that have mooeveng relationships with the people over the years will have the ability to get the people into is the she recalls we feel confident about that and our teams will insure that any individuals that Needs Services and ongoing support will be provided by the teams the roving teams are ready to go thank you very much. Thank you bearing now well hear in Mohammed Nuru the director for public works from San Francisco. Thank you like the mayor said over the last few months all the agencies have been working to present prepare for the upcoming storms as part of work weve done over the last few weeks had a couple of sandbags give away gaze and 15 thousand sandbag
About the unique challenges that are presented by below grade homes . Yes, our biggest challenge is changing the mindset in our members of our we fight fires. Nine times out of ten when we go to a fire, our first rescuer on the scene wants to go to the front door to put a fire out. With below grade homes, say the level you come up on the road is really, instead of the ground floor, its the top floor. What happens if the fire is in the floors below, and we dont know that, we are going into a chimney effect. That stairwell is very very dangerous to us. We have to do it in different ways. We have to identify straight off what we are dealing with. Communicate that to the chief in transit and all the other firefighters on the scene and know the safest way to fight that fire. And another way to get below it. In a lot of houses in San Francisco where houses are attached to each other unfortunately we are going to have to go through your neighbors house and get through a wall to get in. We hav
[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on january 29 board of supervisors agenda. Call item 7 out of order. Item 7, Charter Amendment to amend the chart of the city and councily San Francisco to require an annual baseline appropriation for the park and recreation open space with an election to be held on june, 7, 2016. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, i will save my comments for a full board with this measure. At this point i counted this charter measure has been in committee five months and have gone over 15 amendments. And i want to say tha